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Kenny Gannon [email protected] | kennygannon.com | 404-938-9435 DIRECTOR, TEACHER, WRITER, AND ACTOR REVIEWS “Director Kenny Gannon's restaging of the adaptation Polly Teale wrote for London's Shared Experience is a standout. Melissa Lee’s performance is an achievement—a tribute to fine acting and fine direction by Gannon. Teale's deft editing finds a match with Gannon's pacing brisk but never hurried. He gives the moments of the drama their full value, then quickly replaces one well-developed moment with another.” - BYRON WOODS, NEWS AND OBSERVER “Gannon has instilled a rare confidence and cohesiveness in a large cast of varying experience and has fleshed out his grand conception with inventive details and fresh characterizations. The cast's energy level and well- rehearsed focus is a telling tribute to Gannon's abilities.” - ROY DICKS, NEWS AND OBSERVER Now based in Atlanta, Georgia, Kenny has had a prolific career directing productions throughout the southeast. Most recently, Kenny guest directed and wrote the script for Florida State University's 2014 production of The Melody Lingers On, The Music of Irving Berlin. He worked as Education Director and head of the acting program of the North Carolina Theatre and North Carolina Theatre Conservatory, instituting long-term strategic planning while directing and overseeing acting programs throughout the school year. He doubled participation in acting classes and increased ticket sales. While there, he adapted and directed productions of The Rime of Ebenezer Scrooge, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Dreams of Anne Frank. During Kenny's years as Alumnae Distinguished Professor and Artistic Director at William Peace Theatre, Kenny designed and implemented a new musical theatre program that quickly became the most popular program at the university. He designed a versatile "machine," which innovatively served as the set for three different demanding productions and was featured in Southern Theatre Magazine. Kenny produced over ninety theatrical events during his time at William Peace Theatre. The American premiere of Polly Teale's adaptation of Jane Eyre was called a “standout” and “some of the Triangle’s best theatre” by Raleigh News and Observer. He directed A Shayna Maidel while working closely with the author Barbara Lebow, and it was voted one of the top ten productions of the year by Spectator Magazine. His many professional directorial credits include 110 in the Shade at the Third Avenue Playhouse of Rome, Georgia, and American Beauty with Steven Chicurel at the Tapestry Theatre in Wilmington, North Carolina. Orla Swift called his production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Kennedy Theatre a “cause for celebration.” Kenny currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Curtain Call Players of Cobb County.
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Kenny [email protected] | kennygannon.com | 404-938-9435 DIRECTOR, TEACHER, WRITER, AND ACTOR
REVIEWS
“Director Kenny Gannon's restaging of the adaptation Polly Teale wrote for London's Shared Experience is a standout. Melissa Lee’s performance is an achievement—a tribute to fine acting and fine direction by Gannon. Teale's deft editing finds a match with Gannon's pacing brisk but never hurried. He gives the moments of the drama their full value, then quickly replaces one well-developed moment with another.”
- BYRON WOODS, NEWS AND OBSERVER
“Gannon has instilled a rare confidence and cohesiveness in a large cast of varying experience and has fleshed out his grand conception with inventive details and fresh characterizations. The cast's energy level and well-rehearsed focus is a telling tribute to Gannon's abilities.”
- ROY DICKS, NEWS AND OBSERVER
Now based in Atlanta, Georgia, Kenny has had a prolific career directing productions throughout the southeast. Most recently, Kenny guest directed and wrote the script for Florida State University's 2014 production of The Melody Lingers On, The Music of Irving Berlin.
He worked as Education Director and head of the acting program of the North Carolina Theatre and North Carolina Theatre Conservatory, instituting long-term strategic planning while directing and overseeing acting programs throughout the school year. He doubled participation in acting classes and increased ticket sales. While there, he adapted and directed productions of The Rime of Ebenezer Scrooge, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Dreams of Anne Frank.
During Kenny's years as Alumnae Distinguished Professor and Artistic Director at William Peace Theatre, Kenny designed and implemented a new musical theatre program that quickly became the most popular program at the university. He designed a versatile "machine," which innovatively served as the set for three different demanding productions and was featured in Southern Theatre Magazine.
Kenny produced over ninety theatrical events during his time at William Peace Theatre. The American premiere of Polly Teale's adaptation of Jane Eyre was called a “standout” and “some of the Triangle’s best theatre” by Raleigh News and Observer. He directed A Shayna Maidel while working closely with the author Barbara Lebow, and it was voted one of the top ten productions of the year by Spectator Magazine.
His many professional directorial credits include 110 in the Shade at the Third Avenue Playhouse of Rome, Georgia, and American Beauty with Steven Chicurel at the Tapestry Theatre in Wilmington, North Carolina. Orla Swift called his production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Kennedy Theatre a “cause for celebration.”
Kenny currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Curtain Call Players of Cobb County.
