In November 2024, he celebrated his 18th anniversary as CEO of the Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and artistic director of Williams Street Repertory.

[1] While Kuranda was CEO at Raue, the board negotiated a subsidized lease at $100 per year with a 25-year corporate sponsorship from Home State Bank.

Kuranda's collaboration with Plympton helped launch the budding New York Underground Film and Video Festival,[6] helmed by Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland.

[7][8] Kuranda's early work at the Actors Studio included, amongst others, a six-month exploration of Oedipus Rex with Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Estelle Parsons.

Lloyd Richards, Romulus Linney,[9] Jack Temchin, and Kuranda were chronicled by the Village Voice as defining the Actors Studio Drama School during their tenure of productions at Circle in the Square Theater.

[citation needed] Within a three-year period at the Epic, which he co-founded, Kuranda produced 24 off-Broadway plays, including works by David Auburn, JT Rogers, Romulus Linney, and Lee Blessing.

In recent years, Kuranda has focused on his family life and enjoys the small northwestern Crystal Lake, Illinois community.