About Ken

KEN WERTHER began his career in public relations at Norman Lear’s Embassy Television and later served as a unit publicist at Lorimar Television. Press Associate at Center Theatre Group (Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) 1986-87, 1990-95, 2000-2009. L.A. office of Boneau/Bryan-Brown, 1995-97: Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE 24TH DAY starring Noah Wyle and Peter Berg, FOREVER PLAID, SYLVIA, Sir Ian McKellen’s A KNIGHT OUT IN LOS ANGELES, MASTER CLASS starring Faye Dunaway, Theatre LA Ovation Awards. Miramontez/Werther Company, 1988-90: STEEL MAGNOLIAS, TONY N’ TINA’S WEDDING, VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM, A CHORUS LINE, PETER PAN starring Cathy Rigby. Other shows: 42ND STREET, SWEET CHARITY starring Debbie Allen, THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP, Sandra Tsing Loh’s BAD SEX WITH BUD KEMP, ALIENS IN AMERICA and MOTHER ON FIRE!, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, AFTER-PLAY, THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO, I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE and the long running hit NAKED BOYS SINGING! at Celebration Theatre. Blank Theatre Company: THE WILD PARTY, LOBSTER ALICE, HOTEL C’EST L’AMOUR, LITTLE FISH, WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM, SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE. Hudson Backstage: INVASION! THE MUSICAL. Black Dahlia Theatre: ORSON’S SHADOW, BELFAST BLUES, AN INFINITE ACHE, SECRETS OF THE TRADE.  Assistant Director: STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF (Musical Theatre Guild), THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (Celebration Theatre).  Associate Producer: LEIRIS/PICASSO (Brimmer Street Theatre Company). Member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers and the Publicists Guild of America. Co-produced the 2008 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards ceremony.

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