Ken Davenport is a Sturbridge, Massachusetts native and a graduate of The Bancroft School in Worcester, who recently awarded him with the Young Alumni Achievement Award. After high school, Ken attended Johns Hopkins University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated with honors and was named a “University Scholar”.  Immediately upon graduation, Ken began his career in the commercial theatre industry with management positions on the Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady with Richard Chamberlain and Grease with Rosie O’Donnell.  While a member of the staff at The Charlotte Wilcox Company, Ken had the opportunity to work on the Broadway productions of Damn Yankees, On The Waterfront, Buskers, and many others. 

After company managing a National Tour of A Grand Night for Singing, Ken began a three year relationship with LIVENT, during which time he worked on the Tony Award winning Broadway productions of Showboat, Candide, Ragtime and Parade.  Ken's company managed the Broadway production of the 2002 Tony Award Winning Thoroughly Modern Millie as well as the touring companies of Jekyll & Hyde, Chicago (National Tour and Las Vegas) and general managed the National Tour of Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt, Deborah Gibson and Jamie Lynn Discala.  Ken was the Associate General Manager for GYPSY starring Bernadette Peters and directed by Sam Mendes which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2003. 

As the Director of Creative Development for NETworks, Ken worked on the development of several new theatre pieces, including the recent Broadway production of Little Women.  Ken has also produced and directed several workshops, readings and regional productions, including several companies of Forever Plaid (the last of which performed for former President George Bush and his wife, Barbara), a revised version of Is There Life After High School and an original musical which he wrote entitled Prime Time.  He has had the pleasure of working with a wonderful variety of talents over the years including Harold Prince, Tommy Tune, Terrence McNally and many of Broadway’s premier producers including Clear Channel Entertainment, Robert Fox, Barry and Fran Weissler, Fox Theatricals and others. 

Ken is one of the few independent producers to have three shows running simultaneously Off-Broadway and was recently profiled as the “P.T. Barnum of Off-Broadway” in the New York Times.  He is currently represented by The Awesome 80s Prom, which he also created and directed and is now in its third year.  The Prom has also been produced in Minneapolis and Baltimore and is still running in Chicago after a year and a half.  Ken is also the producer and co-conceiver of the 2005 Outer Critics Award Winner for Best Off-Broadway Musical, Altar Boyz which is in its third year at New World Stages and just finished a National Tour.  Altar Boyz  has also been seen in Korea, Hungary and is slated for production in Brazil, Japan, and many other countries.  His latest production, My First Time, recently premiered Off-Broadway and has already been featured on CNN, MSNBC, The BBC, Fox News, TMZ.com and in Jay Leno’s monologue on The Tonight Show! 

Ken is currently adapting the novel and film Somewhere in Time into a Broadway musical.  Ken taught “Acting As A Business” for America Online and was profiled online and in the premiere issue of Experience magazine as a Broadway “up-and-comer.”  Ken won the 2003 Acclaim Screenwriting Award for his television pilot, “I.C.A.”, and is a member of the BMI Librettist Workshop.  www.DavenportTheatrical.com. 

(2007)