About Bill Kenwright Ltd

Producer

Recent West End productions include: Cabaret (Savoy); Blood Brothers (Phoenix); Dreamboats And Petticoats(Wyndhams); Soul Sister (Savoy); Written On The Heart (RSC - Duchess); Three Days In May (Trafalgar); The Pitmen Painters (Duchess);The Wizard Of Oz (Palladium); The Country Girl (Apollo); Bedroom Farce (Duke of York's);A Daughter's A Daughter (Trafalgar); On The Waterfront (Haymarket); Woman In Mind Haymarket); Plague Over England (Duchess);Sunset Boulevard (Comedy); The Vortex (Apollo); Absurd Person Singular (Garrick);Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi); The Letter (Wyndham's); Treats (Garrick); The Glass Menagerie (Apollo);Cabaret (Lyric); The Canterbury Tales (RSC - Gielgud); The Crucible (RSC - Gielgud); Whistle Down The Wind (Palace); A Man For All Seasons (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); The Night Of The Iguana (Lyric); Scrooge (London Palladium); A Few Good Men (Haymarket); The Big Life (Apollo); Elmina's Kitchen (Garrick);Festen (Lyric); Judi Dench in All's Well That Ends Well (RSC - Gielgud), Hay Fever(Haymarket), Filumena (Piccadilly); The Gift Of The Gorgon (Wyndham's); The Taming Of The Shrew and The Tamer Tamed (RSC - Queen's);The Secret Rapture (Lyric); the RSC Jacobean season (Gielgud); Via Dolorosa(Duchess);Sleuth (Apollo); The Constant Wife (Lyric); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Lyric); Ghosts (Comedy); Fallen Angels (Apollo); Long Day's Journey Into Night (Lyric); Brief Encounter (Lyric); Miss Julie(Haymarket); Stepping Out (Albery);Hurlyburly (Queen's); Lady Windermere's Fan (Haymarket); Passion (Queen's); Company (Albery); The Miracle Worker (Wyndham's);No Man's Land and Moonlight (Comedy). And directed by Peter Hall: Mind Millie For Me, The Master Builder and Jessica Lange in Streetcar Named Desire (Haymarket); The School For Wives (Piccadilly); Hamlet and Absolute Turkey (Gielgud); Lysistrata (Old Vic, Athens); Separate Tables (Albery); She Stoops To Conquer (Queen's); Waiting For Godot, The Misanthrope, Major Barbara and Kafka's Dick (Piccadilly).

On Broadway:

Travels With My Aunt (Minetta Lane - Drama Desk Award); Dancing At Lughnasa (Plymouth - Tony Award); Medea (Longacre - Tony Award); Ibsen's A Doll's House (Belasco - four Tony Awards); Theatre de Complicite's production of Ionesco's The Chairs (Golden - six Tony nominations); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Music Box); The Glass Menagerie (Barrymore); Primo (Music Box); Festen (Music Box); Passing Strange (Belasco); and Guys And Dolls (Nederlander). Blood Brothers, which ran for 24 years in the West End, also played for three years at Broadway's Music Box Theatre.

As a Director his productions include:

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, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, and Rufus Norris' Broken, starring Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy, which opened the 2012 Cannes Film Festival Critics' week.

He co-produced the phenomenally successful arena tour of Elvis - The Concert with Elvis Presley Enterprises. He has received an Honorary Doctorate from both Liverpool University and Nottingham Trent University, an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool's John Moores University and an Honorary Professorship from Thames Valley University in London.

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. And fan.