KFA is full of individuals who have talents that go beyond architecture. Recently, KFA’s Jeff DeWitt starred as the lead in West Side Story in Simi Valley and at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Jeff came to KFA via the University of Michigan’s externship program and has been a full-time member of our team for the past three years.

About a year ago, Jeff started going to community theater auditions. In his first show, The Fantastiks at Theatre Palisades, he played the Mute! He then starred in a Christmas comedy called In-laws, Outlaws, and Other People (That Should be Shot) where he played a Goth punk. Soon after Jeff decided to audition for West Side Story, and to his surprise, he was cast as Tony, a lead role.

Jeff has always liked music, beginning when he sang the lead in his kindergarten’s musical. He sang in his high school choir and musicals, “the highlight of his high school years.” After he joined KFA and moved to L.A., he decided to try to get back into the amateur musicals he had always enjoyed.

Currently, Jeff is starring in a British murder mystery called Write Me a Murder at Theatre Palisades that opened on June 8th and runs through July 15th.