Broadway credits: Avenue Q (Tony Award for Best Musical); All Shook Up, The Palace Theater; Purlie (Encores!), City Center; Freak, Court Theater; Currently Professor of Practice at Indiana University, Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance Department: productions at IU include director and choreographer for Sweet Charity; director Into the Woods and choreographer In the Red and Brown Water. Off-Broadway credits of note: A Boy and His Soul, The Vineyard; Jazz a la Carte (as director and choreographer), Seven Guitars and The Piano Lesson, both at Second Stage. Regional theater credits include, as Director: Frog Kiss (world premiere Virginia Stage.) Ethel, Walnut Street Theatre (world premiere) and Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Crowns, Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill and Ain’t Misbehavin’, all at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C.: Once on This Island, Baltimore Center Stage. Regional theatre credits as choreographer: Ray, Pasadena Playhouse; The Color Purple (Alliance Theatre — world premiere) and The Women of Brewster Place. Guys and Dolls and Thunder Knocking on the Door, both at Door, Arena Stage. Film: HBO’s Lackawanna Blues, Preaching to the Choir, Brother to Brother and John Water. Leguizamo’s House of Buggin’, Fox T.V. Other awards include an Emmy Award nomination, two NAACP Awards, two Lucille Lortel Award nominations, Drama Desk Award nomination and ADELCO Award, BET Spirit Award, NPT Spirit Award and Lifetime Achievement Award from SAY (Stuttering Association for the Young.) As a teacher, Kenneth has taught workshops specializing in the Black Vernacular of Theatre Dance world wide: Brazil, Japan and Germany. Also a performance artist and writer, Kenneth’s one man show Middle Aged Passage Crisis has garnered a NYC cult following. Lastly, he is the recent winner of NPT’s New York Writers Festival for his new Gospel musical in progress, We Ain’t Perfect. Kenneth is a native of Thomson, Ga., and graduate of the University of Georgia’s Henry Grady School of Journalism.
