BIO:

Award-winning director, choreographer, producer, and entrepreneur with work on Broadway, TV/Film, special events and concerts around the world, including work with James Taylor, Bette Midler, Steve Martin, Tony Bennett, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Sting.

BROADWAY: (Associate Director): Bullets Over Broadway (6 Tony Nominations), Big Fish, The Scottsboro Boys (12 Tony nominations), Hair (Tony-winner), Young Frankenstein, and Wicked's 5th Anniversary. NATIONAL TOUR: Credits include Hairspray, Young Frankenstein, Bullets Over Broadway, Rockin’ Road to Dublin, Christmas in Killarney, and The Producers. REGIONAL THEATRE
Whiting was asked to re-imagine America’s longest-running outdoor symphonic drama, The Lost Colony, for a modern audience. Other regional credits include The Scottsboro Boys, Singin’ In The Rain, A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music (Phoenix Theatre), Big, Big Fish, (Milwaukee), Catch Me If You Can (New London Barn), and Gypsy (Best Direction). FILM: Executive Producer -Best Documentary The Show Must Go On (Cannes). Director The Lost Colony. CONCERTS: Carnegie Hall: James Taylor, Bette Midler, Steve Martin, Sting, Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Dianne Reeves. New Victory: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, David Hyde Pierce, John Lithgow, Sarah Jessica Parker.

BUSINESS: Jeff is the Owner of rehearsal studio, Open Jar Studios, Artistic Director of The Open Jar Institute, Founder of Stage Write Software, President of Stage Door Network, theatrical search-engine portal and Chair of The Stage Door Foundation.

TEDTalk:
Whiting was invited to give a TEDTalk on February 6, 2016 at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, where he spoke about his innovative philosophy of "Open Jar Thinking" with his talk entitled "Rising Beyond Limits with Open Jar Thinking."