BILL KENWRIGHT
PRODUCER
Bill Kenwright has produced well over 300 shows including: The Country Girl, Ghosts, On the Waterfront, Woman in Mind, Plague Over England, Sunset Boulevard, Dreamboats and Petticoats, The Vortex, Absurd Person Singular, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Letter, The Glass Menagerie, Cabaret, The Canterbury Tales, Hay Fever, The Crucible, Whistle Down the Wind, A Man for All Seasons, The Night of the Iguana, Scrooge, A Few Good Men, The Big Life, Elmina’s Kitchen, Festen, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed, The Secret Rapture, Tell Me on a Sunday, Via Dolorosa, The Constant Wife, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Ghosts, Fallen Angels, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Brief Encounter, Miss Julie, Stepping Out, Hurlyburly, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Passion, Company, The Miracle Worker, No Man’s Land, Moonlight, The Master Builder, A Streetcar Named Desire, The School for Wives, Hamlet, An Absolute Turkey, The Gift of the Gorgon, Lysistrata, Separate Tables, She Stoops to Conquer, Waiting for Godot, The Misanthrope, Major Barbara, Filumena and Kafka’s Dick.
On Broadway: Travels with My Aunt (Drama Desk Award), Dancing at Lughnasa (Tony Award), Medea (Tony Award), Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (four Tony Awards), The Chairs (Tony Award), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, Primo, Festen, Passing Strange and Guys and Dolls. Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers is now in its 21st year in the West End at the Phoenix Theatre. It ran for three years on Broadway, receiving seven Tony nominations.
As a director he is responsible for Whistle Down the Wind, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ Jesus Christ Superstar. Evita and Blood Brothers. He was nominated for a London Theatre Critics’ Award for West Side Story at the Shaftesbury and a Tony Award for Blood Brothers in New York.
His films include: The Day After the Fair, Stepping Out, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart and most recently Cheri.
He co-produced the national arena tour of Elvis – The Concert with Elvis Presley Enterprises.
He has received an Honorary Doctorate from Nottingham Trent University, an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool’s John Moores University and an Honorary Professorship from Thames Valley University. In 2002 he received the Variety Club Bernard Delfont Award for his contribution to the entertainment industry, and a CBE in the same year. In 2008 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Theatrical Management Association.
He is Chairman of Everton Football Club.
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