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Ken Davenport |
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KEN DAVENPORT is one of the few independent producers to have three shows running simultaneously Off-Broadway and was recently profiled as the "P.T. Barnum of Off-Broadway" in the New York Times. He is currently represented by The Awesome 80S Prom, which he also created and directed and is now in its third year. The Prom has also been produced in Minneapolis and Baltimore and is still running in Chicago after a year and a half. Ken is also the producer and co-conceiver of the 2005 Outer Critics Award Winner for Best Off-Broadway Musical, Altar Boyz, which is in its third year at New World Stages and just finished a National Tour. Altar Boyz has also been seen in Korea and Hungary and is slated for production in Brazil, Japan, and many other countries. His latest production, My First Time, recently premiered Off-Broadway and has already been featured on CNN, MSNBC, The BBC, Fox News, TMZ.com and in Jay Leno's monologue on The Tonight Show! Ken is currently adapting the novel and film Somewhere In Time into a Broadway musical. Before his career as a producer, Ken worked as a Company Manager on the Broadway/National Tours of Show Boat, Candide, Ragtime, Parade (workshop), Chicago, Jekyll & Hyde, Cinderella, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gypsy and many others. Ken taught "Acting As A Business" for America Online and was profiled online and in the premiere issue of Experience magazine as a Broadway "up-and-comer." Ken won the 2003 Acclaim Screenwriting Award for his television pilot, I.C.A., is a member of the BMI Librettist Workshop, and is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Bio as of August, 2007.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Producing Commercial Theatre Off-Broadway - October, 2006
Theatre Intern Group Panelist - 2005, 2007
SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2003, 2004
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
Website:
www.DavenportTheatrical.com
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