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WHO’S WHO

award-winning School Residency Program
and commissioned several new theatre
works including Brother Can You Spare
a Dime: The Social Conscience of the
American Musical, The Way You Look
Tonight, Straight on ‘til Morning, and a
new adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s
To Be Young, Gifted and Black. Kenn also
co-founded The Wallpaper Project, an
annual oral history performance program
in rural Ohio. Kenn has taught workshops
for the Center for Literature and Medicine
and has twice presented workshops
at the National Council of Teachers of
English. In 2018 Kenn was guest speaker
to the Academic Sympoisum of the
Texas Educational Theatre Association.
In Houston, Kenn has taught classes
in creativity at Rice University and in
directing at Sam Houston State University,
as well as teaching diversity awareness
to cadets at the Houston Police Academy
and serving as a guest lecturer for Harris
County’s Department of Education CASE
program. He has served as chair of the
capital campaign and of the stewardship
committee of First Congregational Church
of Houston where he has also served on
the long-range planning and education
committees. Kenn completed the Executive
Non-Profit Leaders program through the
Graduate School of Business at Stanford
University and holds a BFA in acting from
The Theatre School, DePaul University.