Impressario Bill Kenwright is one of the most powerful figures in the UK theatre industry. His most recent production is Treats, starring Billie Piper, Kris Marshall and Laurence Fox, and last year he also produced the London revival of Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre starring Anna Maxwell Martin, James Dreyfus and Sheila Hancock.
Other productions have included West End runs of Whistle Down The Wind, Festen, The Big Life, Elmina’s Kitchen, Scrooge – The Musical, The Night Of The Iguana, A Few Good Men, A Man For All Seasons alongside UK tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Whistle Down The Wind, Tell Me On A Sunday, Scrooge – The Musical and This Is Elvis.
He has also 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).
Die Mommie Die (written by and starring Charles Busch) won an award at the Sundance Film Festival. He also co-produced the phenomenally successful national arena tour of Elvis – The Concert with Elvis Presley Enterprises.
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.
He has also received an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool’s John Moore’s University and is an honorary Professor of Thames Valley University in London.
Other awards include a CBE for his services to film and theatre and the Variety Club Bernard Delfont award for contribution to the entertainment industry.
In 2004 he became Chairman of Everton, the football club he has supported all his life.
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