On graduating with a BA Hons in Business Studies, Kenny’s first job was as an usher at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Kenny went on to work for theatre design and advertising agency Dewynters and left there after a year to work for Cameron Mackintosh as a ‘runner’ on Just So at the Tricycle Theatre. Successive jobs took him from Administrator at the King’s Head Theatre in Islington where he produced a season of ‘sold out’ Sunday night concerts under the name of Kickin’ The Clouds Away, to the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain where he was General Manager for a season. In 1992, he conceived an idea for a collaborative musical which launched a new writers organisation called the Mercury Workshop. The show called The Challenge brought him to the attention of Gary Withers at Imagination for whom he produced the European premiere of Once On This Island at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical as well as being nominated in three other categories.
After three years at Imagination he formed his own production company and produced Maddie– a new musical at the Salisbury Playhouse which transferred to the Lyric Theatre. He has gone on to produce National Tours of the Royal National Theatres Production of Stiles and Drewe's Olivier Award winning musical Honk! directed by Julia Mckenzie, Ben Elton’s Gasping starring David Haig, Gerald Moon’s Corpse starring Mark Mcgann, Colin Baker and Louise Jameson, Something Wonderful - a tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rosamunde Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers starring Stephanie Cole, a second tour with Rosemary Leach, a third tour with Susannah York, My Boy Jack starring David Haig and Belinda Lang and Arsenic And Old Lace with Angela Thorne, Brigit Forsyth and Sylvester McCoy.
Further touring credits include an adaptation of Joanna Trollope's novel Marrying the Mistress, the children’s favourite The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's Child, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, We're Going On A Bear Hunt and Room On The Broom (with Tall Stories). He also produced a major national tour of the children’s classic Stuart Little, a tour of Strangers On A Train with Anita Harris and Colin Baker, a second tour of Arsenic And Old Lace starring Louise Jameson, Sherrie Hewson and Wayne Sleep and The Rivals starring Stephanie Cole and George Baker – a co-production with Theatre Royal Bath.
In the West End he has produced The Shape Of Things by Neil Labute- a new play at the New Ambassadors Theatre, further productions of The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child at the Apollo, Arts and Criterion theatres, Room On The Broom at the Garrick Theatre and We're Going On A Bear Hunt at the Duchess Theatre.
In May 2005 he was asked by Cameron Mackintosh to General Manage a charity gala in honour of Julian Slade called Time Of My Life at the Bristol Old Vic. For the past three years he has General Managed The Night Of 1000 Voices at the Royal Albert Hall starring amongst others Cliff Richard, Brian May and Michael Ball and at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast starring David Essex, James Galway, Peter Corry and Riverdance.
In 2007 he toured Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce, co-produced with the Chichester Festival Theatre a new production of Hobsons Choice starring John Savident, and a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love starring David Essex. Aspects of Love and Hobsons Choice are touring throughout 2008.
Kenny was the General Manager of The Woman In Black at the Fortune Theatre for PW Productions for five years. Other General Management credits include Honour at the Wyndhams Theatre starring Dame Diana Rigg and Martin Jarvis, What The Butler Saw at the Criterion Theatre,Bombshells at the Arts Theatre and the 2010 UK tour of Carrie's War. Kenny has also co-produced with PW Productions tours of the Royal National Theatre’s production of An Inspector Calls.
In 2008 he produced The Witches Of Eastwick starring Marti Pellow and new adaptations of the children's classics The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr, We're Going On A Bearhunt by Michael Rosen and Room On The Broom by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler.
In 2009 he toured the stage adaptation of Rain Man starring Neil Morrissey as well as co-producing the National Theatre production of An Inspector Calls which opened at the Novello Theatre following its successful national tour.
Kenny is currently producing the first ever stage adaptation of the 1935 smash hit RKO film Top Hat, which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This will tour the UK throughout 2011. He is also producing a brand new stage adaptation of the well-loved classic, Mr. Benn and is also producing a unique 'scratch-n-sniff' production of David Walliams's new childrens book, Mr. Stink.