STAGE TUBE: HAMILTON Producer Jeffrey Seller Explains the Future of Storytelling

Jeffrey Seller believes there are ways in which the digital age falls short. For him, the experience of live theater fulfills a deep visceral need for live storytelling in a way that cannot be replaced.

Seller's own process is predicated on searching for those special moments in which the hair stands up on his arms and he is completely in the theater's thrall-and his legacy of musicals, from Rent and Avenue Q to In the Heights and Hamilton, has inspired that same reaction in millions of theatergoers.

Below, watch a short documentary that will be featured at 2016 Future of StoryTelling, in which the Hamilton producer explains the power of live art. Learn more about FoST Fest here: fostfest.com/

Seller is the winner of four Tony Awards for Best Musical: Hamilton (2016); Rent (1996), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Avenue Q (2004); and In the Heights (2008). Jeffrey has also produced and/or developed De La Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party (2000), Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's La Bohème (2002), High Fidelity (2006), the 2009 Revival of West Side Story, and The Last Ship (2014). Jeffrey is a graduate of the University of Michigan.