Dustin Witte, Managing Artistic Director, Co-Founder

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Dustin T. Witte was born in 1983 in Kearney, Nebraska. After graduating from Kearney Catholic High School in 2001, he attended Doane University in Crete, NE, where he studied English and theater and participated in Vocal music. While in college, Dustin was an avid writer, publishing poems in the school's literary publication. He also learned to weave baskets from mentor and theater director, Judith K. Hart. In 2002, he became a company member at the Theater of the American West in Republican City, NE, where he moved upon graduating from Doane with B.A.'s in English and Theater, in 2005.

While in Rep. City, Dustin performed in more than 100 productions, as well as building and painting scenery, creating props, writing scenes, and making ice cream. He was an apprentice to versatile theater artist, Charles Davies, who founded Theatre of the American West, until Davies died in 2006. Dustin remained at the theater for two more seasons, assuming more roles and responsibilities along the way. He was the resident Technical Director and Company Manager from 2006-2008. It was at this time that he began developing his skills as a scenic designer.

He left the theater in 2008 and moved to Lincoln, where he currently resides. In Lincoln, Dustin has worked as a freelance scenic designer, props artisan, performer, painter, basket weaver, baker, director, and teacher. In 2010, he met Daniel Kubert, and the two were married in November of that year. Immediately they began collaborating on theatrical work, and after a short time, realized their shared dream of creating a performing arts production company that would help them to achieve their goals. Dustin and Daniel co-founded OmniArts Nebraska in 2011 as Executive Director and Artistic Director, respectively, and produced plays, musicals, dance, and original work for eight years together. After nine years of marriage, Dustin and Daniel's relationship came to an end, but the two remain close. Daniel decided to end his tenure with OmniArts Nebraska in 2019 to pursue new artistic endeavors, and he is still active in the Lincoln performing arts community.

Dustin is now Managing Artistic Director and is gratified to be at the center of so much creative energy. He has designed, built, and painted scenery for all the company's productions to date, and is also a frequent performer. Dustin has directed OmniArts shows such as Pippin, Next Fall, Sweeney Todd, Bell, Book & Candle, and No Exit. As a writer, he adapted scripts for productions of The Everyman Project, Lifeboat, and Earth Sky Tomes, and updated classic myth for the original production, Icarus & the Phoenix. It is this interdisciplinary work that truly inspires Dustin, and when he feels he thrives as an individual artist. He looks forward to many more years of art.