Fermin Rojas

Fermin Rojas is a Cuban-born producer, filmmaker, actor, writer and co-founder of DKR Films. Based in Provincetown, DKR’s award-winning documentaries include Alumbrones, The Black Mambas and King Philip’s Belt : A Story of Wampum, which screened at The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Narrative film credits include executive producer for The Ali’i King, written and directed by Christine Kunewa Walker.

He has authored and directed numerous plays, books for musicals and monologues for the stage,

He is a member of Truro Playwright Collective where he presented a staged reading of Liberty Talks, his most recent work in development.

Along with husband Jay Kubesch, Fermin produced Cuba’s first and only gay men’s singing ensemble Mano a Mano. A veteran regional actor from South Florida, he was a member of the internationally recognized Spanish-speaking Teatro Prometeo where he worked on numerous productions with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz.

Other directing credits include Very, Very Jerry the Music of Jerry Herman,and An Evening with Jerome Kern with guest star Estelle Getty. Other regional credits include productions of The Andrews Brothers, Company, Glass Menagerie, Into the Woods, Lucky Stiff, Laundry and Bourbon and Lonestar, Hair.

Fermin studied musical theater under Philip Astor (original company 1776) at Coconut Grove Playhouse Conservatory.

Liberty Talks (play), staged reading Truro Playwright Collective, writer

“I Saw Red” (play), staged reading, writer/director

“Ashes,” (play), Provincetown Theatre 24 Hour Plays, writer

“The Man” (play), Sailor Beware

“January 2020 (My Covid Year)” (play), Sailor Beware

“Rubbing the Beads” Provincetown Theatre 24 Hour Plays, writer

Destination Holiday (play), Lincoln Theatre, Miami Beach, writer/director

A Twinkle in Time (play), Colony Theatre, Miami Beach, writer/director

Miss Twinkleton School for Sensitive Boys presents The Nutcracker: Men in Tights (play), Colony Theatre, Miami Beach, writer/director

The Gospel of Eureka (musical), in development.

“There Are Things To Do” (documentary about LGBTQ activist Urvashi Vaid), producer

Alumbrones (Illuminations), (documentary), producer

The Ali’i King, (narrative), executive producer

“King Philip’s Belt” (documentary), Smithsonian Institute Museum of the American Indian, director/producer

“The Black Mambas” (documentary), producer

“Women of Plymouth”, (documentary), director/producer

TEDx Provincetown 2018, 2019, director/producer

Great Music on Sundays @5, concert film series, 2020, 2021, director/producer

Founder/Producer Mano a Mano, Cuba’s first and only gay men’s singing ensemble.

A Night In Havana Concert, Art House Provincetown w/ Provincetown Arts Society 2022

Acting, directing and other credits available on website

Provincetown International Film Festival, Best Documentary Shorts, 2019, “The Black Mambas”

American Documentary Film Festival, Best Short 2018, “The Black Mambas”

Wellington Independent Film Festival 2019, “The Black Mambas”

Jozi Film Festival 2019, “The Black Mambas”

ACCA Miami

Alumbrones (Illuminations) . . . “ not only explores the creative lives of its interviewees but also the economic realities of being an artist in an isolated Communist dictatorship.” - David Ng, Chicago Tribune.

Alumbrones [is] . . . “Beautifully yet simply shot . . . Havana comes directly from the art and the artists, free from the influence of additional commentary creating meaning in the isolation.” - John Fink, Film Stage

Alumbrones [is] . . . “charming, insightful about life and art, and seemingly free of self-pity, with memorable faces and voices.” - Rachel Saltz, NYT

“American Castro: Donald Trump,” HuffPost, December 20, 2016

Desert Playwrights’ Retreat

Truro Playwright Collective

Ash Christian Film Fund Foundation, Board Member

Provincetown Theatre, Board Member 2017-2021, actor

Provincetown Playwright Lab (former member)

Provincetown Film Society, Advisory Board member 2018-2021

Teatro Prometeo, Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus