Kenny
Emson

Kenny is a multi award winning writer for stage and screen.

He co-created, co-wrote and was associate producer on the BBC’s ground breaking multi-platform murder mystery The Last Hours of Laura K  which earned him a BAFTA nomination in Digital Creativity and a number of other prestigious television and VFX awards nominations. He adapted Agatha Christies The Coming of Mr Quin for digital media which was BAFTA CYMRU nominated for Best Game.

He was selected for the BBC Writers Academy in 2011 and has gone on to write episodes of Doctors and Eastenders. Since then he has developed original projects with a variety of indies and has been shortlisted for the Red Planet prize.

His theatre projects include Rust (Bush Theatre) Plastic (Old Red Lion / Mercury theatre ) and Terrorism (Bush Theatre). He is a past winner of the Mercury Theatre playwriting prize, the Adopt a Playwright Award, the Adrienne Benham Award and has been shortlisted for both the Bruntwood and Papatango prizes.

He currently has projects in development with RAW TV, FIREBIRD/BBC, Two and Two Films (USA) and AMC Studios (USA).