Deborah Jung

Since 1989, Deborah has produced and directed tours of Kids Who Care Touring Company original musicals and KWC Performing Arts theatre productions.

The Kids Who Care Touring Company has performed in New York on Times Square and Off-Broadway, The Kennedy Center, Bass Hall, and Disneyland, Teatro Municipale in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in addition to more venues across the country, world, and even once at 30,000 feet on an American Airlines Wish Flight.

Deborah has directed many KWC main stage productions, including A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, A Christmas Story, Peter Pan, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Annie, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Godspell, Narnia, Wizard of Oz, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Under Deborah’s direction, KWC Performing Arts has also produced family concerts with Peter Yarrow, Trout Fishing in America, Sara Hickman, Inca Son, Eddie Coker, and Joseph Vincelli.

Deborah designed KidPower Leadership in 1993. This leadership model, originally designed for summer student leaders, has become an essential element for all leadership at KWC Performing Arts. As a consultant, she and the KWC staff now produce KidPower Leadership workshops for corporations, schools, and other nonprofits staffs and boards.

Prior to founding KWC Performing Arts, Jung was in the Resident Company at Casa Mañana Playhouse (1975-1989), where she directed and/or appeared in over 75 productions. She was the Company Manager for Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park for ten years. During that time, Deborah created the Shakespeare Acting Institute and appeared onstage in Hamlet and Macbeth.

Deborah received her BA in Speech and Drama from Trinity University in San Antonio with a Secondary Certification for Speech and Drama with the Texas Education Agency. She is a member of Who’s Who, Mortar Board, the Live Theatre League, and the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. Most recently, Deborah was a recipient of the Fort Worth Business Press C-Suite Awards in 2019. She also was awarded The Heart of Gold Award from the Arts Council of Fort Worth (2018), the Legacy of Women Award for the Arts (2008), and was a Great Women of Texas honoree (2007).