Portia Kamons is a producer, consultant, and writer with experience in theatre, live events, music and feature film, mostly with newly commissioned pieces. With composer Ron Ramin, she is the co-creator and librettist for SEVENTEEN, a work for Orchestra and Narration premiering in 2024. She wrote the libretto for House of Card’s creator Beau Willimon’s Biederman’s Match, music by Michelle DiBucci, developed in partnership with University of California Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. She was the Executive Producer for Virtua Creative on the US WW1 Centennial Commemoration, presented at the WW1 National Memorial, narrated by Kevin Costner, as well as Exec Producer for “Visions of Peace” a special video project for the WW1 Centennial with President Jimmy Carter. She worked for many years as a Producer for En Garde Arts, an OBIE, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award winning NY-based theatre company. En Garde’s production BASETRACK Live premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, toured across the USA, and was named in the top ten productions of 2014 by The New York Times. She is a regular consultant to Danish documentary and creative activism platform, OTHER STORY.
She was a founding member and the first General Manager of Primary Stages Theatre in New York City, and a Producer for the NextWave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. For the London International Festival of Theatre, she produced En Garde’s OBIE Award winning production of Mac Wellman’s BAD PENNY. Also for LIFT, she produced Wellman’s Terminal Hip, and co-produced Jean Genet’s Splendid’s, directed by Neil Bartlett at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.
Portia was the lead producer of Tennyson Bardwell’s feature film Dorian Blues which won 14 awards at festivals worldwide, including Audience Award at Cinequest in San Jose, special jury award at Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, Audience Award at the Lake Placid Film Festival, as well as audience awards at festivals in Torino, IT, and Copenhagen, DK.
She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.