Bill Kenwright

West End productions include: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London), the RSC Season (Gielgud), Home and Beauty (Lyric), Via Dolorosa (Duchess), Sleuth (Apollo), The Constant Wife (Lyric), Dangerous Corner (Garrick), Star Quality (Apollo), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Lyric), Caught In the Net – Run For Your Wife (the sequel) (Vaudeville), Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (Lyric), Gondoliers (Apollo), The (Female) Odd Couple (Apollo), Ghosts (Comedy), Fallen Angels (Apollo), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Lyric), Brief Encounter (Lyric), Miss Julie (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), The Chiltern Hundreds (Vaudeville), Song At Twilight (Gielgud), Waiting For Godot, The Misanthrope, Major Barbara, Filumena and Kafka’s Dick as part of The Peter Hall Company season (Piccadilly Theatre), An Ideal Husband (Gielgud Theatre, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway), Stepping Out – The Musical (Albery), Hurlyburly (Queen’s), Pygmalion (Albery), The Mysterious Mr Love (Comedy), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), The Aspern Papers (Wyndham’s), The Odd Couple and Shakespeare For My Father (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), Passion (Queen’s), Company (Albery), Chapter Two and Design For Living (Gielgud), The Roy Orbison Story (Piccadilly), The Miracle Worker (Comedy/Wyndham’s), Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Moonlight (Comedy Theatre), Dead Guilty, In Praise of Love and The Deep Blue Sea (Apollo), Present Laughter and The Winslow Boy (Globe), Travels With My Aunt (Wyndham’s and Minetta Lane Theatre, New York – Drama Desk award), Dancing At Lughnasa (Garrick and Plymouth Theatre, Broadway – Tony award), Medea with Diana Rigg (Wyndham’s and Longacre Theatre, Broadway – Tony award), My Night With Reg (Playhouse). Directed by Peter Hall: Mind Millie For Me (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), The Master Builder (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), The School For Wives (Piccadilly), A Streetcar Named Desire with Jessica Lange (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), Hamlet (Gielgud), An Absolute Turkey (Globe), The Gift of the Gorgon (Wyndham’s), Lysistrata (Old Vic, Athens and Wyndham’s), Separate Tables (Albery) and She Stoops To Conquer (Queen’s). Alongside his award-winning productions of Medea, An Ideal Husband and Travels With My Aunt, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House played to packed houses at the Belasco Theatre, Broadway, winning four Tony awards, and Theatre de Complicité’s production of Ionesco’s The Chairs at the Golden Theatre, Broadway was nominated for six Tony awards.

Bill Kenwright is executive producer of the Theatre Royal, Windsor. As a director he is responsible for the record-breaking tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down the Wind and Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers. He was nominated for a London Theatre Critics’ Best Director award for West Side Story at the Shaftesbury Theatre and a Tony award for Blood Brothers in New York.

Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers recently celebrated its fifteenth year in the West End at the Phoenix Theatre. It ran for nearly three years at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, receiving seven Tony nominations.

He has co-produced several films including The Day After the Fair, Stepping Out (director Lewis Gilbert starring Liza Minnelli) and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (starring Anthony Edwards, Jenny Seagrove and Charles Dance). His latest film, Die Mommie Die (written by and starring Charles Busch) recently won an award at the Sundance Film Festival. He co-produced the phenomenally successful national arena tour of Elvis – The Concert with Elvis Presley Enterprises.

He received an honorary fellowship from Liverpool’s John Moore’s University and is an honorary professor of Thames Valley University in London. He was awarded a BASCA Gold Badge award for his Contribution to the British Entertainment Industry. January 2001 brought him a CBE in HM The Queen’s New Year’s Honours.

He is deputy chairman of Everton Football Club (and an even bigger fan).