Perry DeCosta

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Executive Producer, President & CEO

A serial entrepreneur, Perry DeCosta is the Founder, President & CEO of the International Black Humanities Awards and President & CEO of the Black Pearl Group of Companies (BPGC). In this role, he is responsible for setting the company's long-term vision, driving top-line revenue growth, and ensuring profitability through strategic decision-making and resource allocation. He leads the creation, communication, and implementation of the organization's vision, mission, and overall strategic direction across the group of companies.

His introduction to the entertainment industry came as a featured performer and male dancer in the Le Cabaret Theater Burlesque Show on Paradise Island, Bahamas — "The Nights of the Buccaneers," a production by Tibor Rudas, renowned for producing global concert events including The Three Tenors. He was later recruited by Bobby Cooke to tour as a featured singer with Bobby Cooke and The Sounds of the Platters throughout the mid-1970s to the 1980s.

Following his touring career, he returned to the Le Cabaret Theater, where he progressed from stagehand to special effects technician, then stage manager, and ultimately became the first Black and Bahamian Company Manager of the Le Cabaret Theater, making history in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.