Kevin Fennessy

Kevin Fennessy is an Actor, Theatre Director, and a former Boston-based Casting Director. From 1998-2009, he was the owner of Kevin Fennessy Casting ("KFC...we're not chicken"). Following a 15 year AEA/SAG/AFTRA acting career in Boston and New York, he went into casting in 1994, and amassed vast experience throughout New England in the Locations Casting of principal, weekly and day-player roles, as well as Extras Casting on major studio feature films and the main, additional, and extras casting on Independent projects. In 2005 he took some time off to aid in the care of his Dad, Robert Fennessy, Sr.,(b 3/15/25, d. 2/1/08) who co-starred in the ABC-Family Series, My Life Is A Sitcom (2), and his Mother, Georgia Ravanis Fennessy (b. 1/21/29, d.10/25/11). He continued to freelance during this period, at Boston Casting as well as on his own. In the summer of 2010, he followed a Twitter tweet that led him to performing in the ensemble of the American Premiere of Todd Machover's Electronic Opera, Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus. He continued his return to acting in a sold-out production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya as Ilya "Waffles" Telegin, and with roles in Maria Menounos's feature, Adventures of Serial Buddies, and Emmy Grinwis' AFI Workshop for Women Directors project, The Muskrat Boy Of Griffith Park. He was nominated for 2014 Best Actor, Small Theatre by the Independent Reviewers of New England, for his critically acclaimed performance as Blue, in Keith Reddin's Almost Blue, with Charlestown Working Theatre. Other recent roles include Harriman F Spritzer in Hairspray , Judge Harper and Drunk Santa in Miracle on 34th Street, and The Doctor in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Prior to that he performed in the acclaimed production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, directed by MacArthur Award recipient David Cromer for the Huntington Theatre Company. An experienced theatre director, he is the recipient of the Boston Magazine Award for Best Theatrical Director 1995, and the 1997 Boston Theatre Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Fringe Theatre Production.