Jim Kenworth

Jim Kenworth is an English playwright.

Jim made his debut as a playwright with the premiere of "Johnny Song" at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon in 1998. His second play, Gob, at The King's Head Theatre, Islington, in 1999, gained positive reviews including Time Out & What’s On Critics Choice and starred Jason Orange of Take That. Gob was revived at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2003 and earned the distinction of two five-star reviews from Three Weeks and The List including Editor’s Highlights of the Fringe. Gob was then transferred to the The Courtyard Theatre, Kings Cross and ran successfully for four weeks. Gob was also produced by Harrogate Youth Theatre as part of their Festival of New Performance.

Jim had a sell-out reading of his play Polar Bears at The Soho Theatre in 2003 with a cast that fused stand-up comics and theatre actors. Harrogate Youth Theatre again produced Polar Bears as part of their Write On 2005 New Writing Festival.

Office Guerrillas was selected to perform at Hampstead Theatre Start Nights. Office Guerrillas was also specially commended by The Literacy Consultancy in their TLC Scriptwriting competition and awarded a free professional critique. In September 2005 Jim had a double-bill ‘script-in-hand’ performance of Office Guerrillas and Don’t Kill The Critic at RADA. He returned to RADA in May 2006 with a reading of his new play Pig.

In August 2006 Jim wrote, directed and produced the black comedy Polar Bears at The Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In 2007 Pig was performed by Foundation students of E15 Drama School.