Jeff Beyersdorf

With an extensive background in theatre music and dance, Jeff Beyersdorf began his career in the arts at the Royal Shakespeare Company where he started as a cleaner at The Other Place. After making enough of a nuisance of himself, he was eventually brought on as stage crew, leading to touring and extended residencies as Props Master as well as at home at the Swan Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. While there, Jeff was also the Head of Stage for the Summer House, and production manager/ technical director for the RSC Fringe Festival.

Through the RSC residencies, Jeff was introduced to the Ann Arbor-based University Musical Society, where he joined the production team and served for nearly twenty years, nine years of which as Production Director. During that time, the UMS Choral Union won four Grammy® Awards and UMS was awarded the 2014 National Medal of Arts, presenting national and international dance, theatre, early and contemporary music ensembles, and more than a few major orchestras. Jeff spent over a decade production managing the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and fifteen years stage managing for the Detroit Jazz Festival. He's also stage managed for the Movement Festival, as well as operations managed the Original Ann Arbor Street Art Fair.

Most importantly Jeff's delighted to be a part of and work with the extraordinary team at the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. When not doing shows, he enjoys working on an old river cottage that should be ready to live in in about thirty years or so, keeping bees with occasional success, and raising chickens when the raccoons don't beat him to them. Proud member of IATSE Local 395.