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54 Below

A Nonprofit Cabaret Venue

A man with short brown hair and a neatly trimmed reddish-brown beard smiles gently at the camera. He wears a black shirt against a plain dark background, his even lighting reminiscent of portrait styles seen in Amanda Quaid’s work.

James Kennedy makes live theater to ask the unanswerable. Most recently, his new musical piece Prodigy enjoyed a sold-out extended run at University Settlement’s Speyer Hall. When not self-producing his work in bespoke performance, concert, and development events, his writing has been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville/The Humana Festival of New American Plays, The Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Upstart Creatures, Emerson College, Dartmouth College, and Superhero Clubhouse, and he has performed sold out concerts at National Sawdust and the Green Room 42. He has received residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Everwood Farmstead, and The Orchard Project, and he is the recipient of the Rod Parker Playwrighting Fellowship and the Betsy Carpenter Playwrighting Award, as well as a finalist for the Princess Grace award.