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A man wearing a beige jacket and a gray baseball cap standing in front of a black and yellow backdrop at an event.

Fermín Rojas is a Cuban-born producer, filmmaker, playwright, and actor whose career focuses on socially conscious projects. He is the co-founder of DKR Films, based in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He has produced award-winning documentaries and narrative films that have screened across five continents at renowned festivals, including SXSW, DOC NYC, Frameline, NewFest, AMDOCS, UNAFF, the Honolulu Film Fest, and the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF). His film credits include The Ali’i King, High Tide, There Are Things To Do (Audience Favorite Award, NewFest), Alumbrones (part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library Collection), The Black Mambas (Best Short Documentary, PIFF), and King Philip’s Belt: A Story of Wampum, which screened at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. Fermín also serves as co-chair of the Shorts Program for the Ash Christian Foundation, mentoring young LGBTQ+ filmmakers.

As a playwright, Fermín is a member of the Truro Playwrights Collective and the Desert Playwrights Retreat, and is an emeritus member of the Helltown Players. His plays include Liberty Talks (produced at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors’ Theater, 2024), Cold War (staged reading at the Truro Playwrights Collective, 2024), Agonies & Ecstasies (staged reading at the Truro Playwrights Collective, 2026), and numerous ten-minute plays. He was also commissioned by the Miami Gay Men’s Chorus to write Miss Twinkleton’s School for Sensitive Boys, A Twinkle in Time, and Destination Holiday, which were all produced at the Colony Theatre in Miami.

Upcoming theater projects include The Gospel of Eureka (Musical)—adapted from the titular documentary—with director Jeremy Cohen and playwrights Donnetta Lavinia Grays and Mfoniso Udofia. Additionally, his short play Rubbing the Beads will premiere in Rome, Italy, in fall 2026 as Grani Fra Le Dita. Translated by playwright Allie Leigh, it will be part of the country’s first ten-minute play festival, 10 Minuti a Roma.

From 2013 to 2016, Fermín and his husband, Jay Kubesch, produced Cuba’s first and only gay men’s chorus, Mano a Mano. The ensemble toured the U.S. in 2016, performing alongside the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., and at the GALA Choruses Festival. He was the recipient of a Gill Foundation grant for the project.

Fermín holds a BA in finance and studied theater at Teatro Prometeo (Miami-Dade College) and the Coconut Grove Playhouse Conservatory. He is a year-round resident of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he lives with his husband, Jay Kubesch, and their three dogs, Truman, Porter, and Shadow.

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