BIO

Jason Bruffy is currently the Managing Director of the Cultural Arts Center at Montgomery College. In his short tenure he has redefined the mission of the Center with focus of Radical Inclusion. For over 20 years, Bruffy has worked professionally as a director, producer and presenter with an overall understanding of the industry as an expert generalist. In these positions he has pushed the idea of radical inclusion to both great success and great push back. He believes in the idea of telling our American pluralistic story.

Prior to Montgomery College Bruffy was the Operations & Production Director for Freeman Stage. Before that Bruffy served as the Producing Director of Greenway Court Theatre in West Hollywood Los Angeles. Most notably, he was the founding Producer of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, now entering its 17th year, and Artistic Director of the Know Theatre of Cincinnati, a new works and a mission based diverse theatre entering its 22nd season. 

Bruffy has worked as a director and producer of theatre and film from coast to coast, including two Off-Broadway companies; SOHO Rep in NYC where he produced the Obie Award winning play Born Bad by Debbie Tucker Green and Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC where he served as Associate Producer and Resident Director. Other significant theatres include: Interact Theatre, Philadelphia; Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota; Orlando Shakespeare Theatre and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.  

Bruffy has developed and directed works with some of the great voices in American Theatre. He has collaborated with Mark Hollman (Urinetown) on new musical workshop, Mark Brown on a new adaptation of Don Quixote and Premiered work by Sean Christopher Lewis (Militant Language) and Steven Yockey (Pluto). Bruffy has also worked across mediums with multi-media projects (Hamlet and Pillowman with KTC) and collaborations with Opera and Dance Companies, including an original adaptation, Xmas Yet to Come with Exhale Dance Tribe.

Bruffy studied Theatre and Dance at Radford University; and holds a BA in Organization and Nonprofit Management. He is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers union (SDC). Above all this Jason’s personal artistic mission of inclusion, equity and access serve as the foundation for all of the work that he presents, produces and creates.