KENREX in NYC: A Gripping True-Crime Play at the Lortel Theatre

JACK HOLDENPerformer/Co-Writer

Jack Holden is an Olivier Award-winning actor and writer. He trained as an actor at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has taken part in the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course. He was recently on attachment at the National Theatre Studio and selected for the Brit List 2025.

His debut play, Cruise, a kaleidoscopic musical odyssey through Soho and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, premiered at the Duchess Theatre in 2021 to widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play. The production later transferred to the Apollo Theatre and has since been staged internationally, including in Mexico, South Africa and Australia, where it won a Sydney Theatre Award, with further productions forthcoming.

His follow-up play, KENREX: A True Crime Thriller, co-written with director Ed Stambollouian, premiered at Sheffield Theatres in 2024 before sell-out runs at Southwark Playhouse and The Other Palace. Jack’s performance in the production won the UK Theatre Award for Best Performer in a Play. The production was nominated for six Olivier Awards, winning Best Actor and Best Sound Design.

Jack also adapted Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty for the Almeida Theatre, directed by Michael Grandage, which played to sell-out audiences in 2025.

As an actor, Jack’s screen credits include “Ten Percent” (Amazon) and “Marriage” (BBC One), alongside work at the National Theatre, the RSC, the Almeida, regional theatres across the UK, and multiple appearances in the West End.

ED STAMBOLLOUIANDirector/Co-Writer

Ed Stambollouian is an Olivier-nominated theatre director and writer who trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

His work includes KENREX (Sheffield Crucible and transfer to the Other Palace, London), Olivier-nominated as Best Director and Co-writer, Animal Farm (Royal & Derngate), Night School (Part of Jamie Lloyd’s Pinter at the Pinter West End Season), Curse of the Crackles (Shoreditch Town Hall), BLUSH (Soho Theatre & UK tour), Don’t Waste Your Bullets on the Dead (VAULT Festival), Feathers in the Snow (Unicorn Theatre), Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve F*cked (Underbelly), Family Voices & Victoria Station (Trafalgar Studios), Finer Noble Gases & Lobby Hero (Haymarket, Masterclass), The Aliens (Trafalgar Studios 2), Elegy (Shunt Vaults).

Alongside his theatre work, Ed is a seasoned director of comedy, directing major international touring shows with digital talent, including Max Fosh: Loophole (UK, US, Australia), Daniel Howell and Phil Lester: We’re All Doomed (UK, US, Australia) and The Amazing Tour is Not on Fire (UK, US, Australia and Europe), and Sorted Food Live. He also directs the live and screen work of stand-up comedian Joe Lycett, including his Channel 4 Comedy award-winning show More, More, More: Joe Lycett.

Ed is currently under commission with Jack Holden on two major new plays.

JOHN PATRICK ELLIOTTOnstage Musician/Composer/Music Supervisor

John Patrick Elliott is an award-winning composer, songwriter and performer from Yorkshire, England.

He has composed and performed live multi-instrumentalist scores in the West End and for theatres across the UK, including the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In 2022, he won Best Composer at the Stage Debut Awards for his live electronic score for Cruise. This year, his composition work on KENREX: A True Crime Thriller was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution.

Under his alias The Little Unsaid, John has released over ten albums and toured Europe extensively, performing at major festivals and receiving radio support from Iggy Pop. For this project, he won the Steve Reid Innovation Award for boundary-pushing music creators, judged by a panel of music industry professionals including Four Tet, Floating Points and Gilles Peterson.

John also composes for film and television, with recent work including the BAFTA-nominated film Terence, and Channel 5 documentary series “China with Ben Fogle.” He is currently developing compositions for several new musicals and collaborating on several theatre projects in the UK.

TIM CREAVINUnderstudy for Performer

Tim Creavin is a New York City-based actor and multi-hyphenate artist. His work has been seen at such NYC venues as The McKittrick Hotel, Ars Nova, The Mansion at Hudson Yards, LMCC, The Brick, Gene Frankel Theatre, IRT Theater, and BRIC Arts Media House, and regionally at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and American Stage. He was a member of the inaugural Mercury Store Acting Company. He received his BA in Theater Studies from Yale University and his MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program, where he was awarded the Ron Van Lieu and Shubert Scholars Scholarships.

ALEX CROSSLANDUnderstudy for Onstage Musician

Alex Crossland is an actor, singer-songwriter, and music producer living in New York City. He’s spent his early career touring the country, performing in both theatrical productions and music groups. Regional credits include: Bandstand, Once, Ring of Fire, Million Dollar Quartet, and The Hello Girls. You can find his solo music on all streaming platforms. Alex is endlessly grateful to the KENREX: A True Crime Thriller team and sends love to his friends and family. @alexcrosslandmusic

KELLY BURKEVoice of Annette Parker

Kelly Burke is a US actor and voice artist, often based in London. Favorite roles include: Off Broadway: Love for Sale. West End: Passion Play, Zelda, Natalie Barney’s Last Salon. Film/television: Macbeth, Bonding, Justice League, “Law and Order,” “FBI: International,” “American Gods.” Hosts the podcast “Mae Riot’s Screaming Twenties.” @kellyeburke

JAMES SOBOL KELLYVOICE OF DAVID BAIRD

Theatre includes: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Drowned Man, Faust (Punchdrunk); Cops (Southwark Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice (Guildford Shakespeare); Mae Riot’s Screaming Twenties (Tilted Productions); Scorpio (Theatre503); Love Suicides (La MaMa ETC); The Tempest (American Repertory Theater); True Love (Zipper Theatre). TV includes: “Young Sherlock,” “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” (Amazon Prime); “The Crown” (Netflix); “FBI: International” (CBS). Film includes: Florence Foster Jenkins, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Two Faces of January, The Conductor, Borg vs McEnroe.

ANISHA FIELDSScenic & Costume Designer

Anisha Fields is a set and costume designer, and graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She was named as one of The Guardian’s 12 theatre stars to watch, and was a finalist for Told by an Idiot’s Naomi Wilkinson Award.

Recent and upcoming credits include As You Like It, English and King Lear First Encounters (all Royal Shakespeare Company); Choir, Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles (both Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre); The Limit (Royal Opera House, Linbury); A Ghost In Your Ear, Octopolis, Blackout Songs (all Hampstead Theatre); Pandemonium (Soho Theatre); The Little Prince, I Wish I Was A Mountain, Squirrel, Wendy (all The Egg, Bath Theatre Royal); Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist (Rose Theatre); Kes (Bolton Octagon/Theatre By The Lake); Walworth Farce, Yellowfin (Southwark Playhouse); Alice in Wonderland (Mercury Colchester); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tobacco Factory/Salisbury Playhouse); Macbeth, A View From The Bridge, Beautiful Thing (Tobacco Factory).

Opera credits include, as costume designer, Pelleas et Mellisande, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Wahnfried (Longborough Festival Opera); Acis and Galatea (Buxton Opera House).

JOSHUA PHAROLighting & Video Designer

Previous theatre credits include: Measure for Measure (RSC); Noughts & Crosses (Regent’s Park); The Reckoning (Arcola); KENREX: A True Crime Thriller, Contradictions (Sheffield Theatres); Stranger Beasts, A Raisin in the Sun, The House Party, Corrina, Corrina (Headlong); The Hot Wing King, The Odyssey, Jekyll and Hyde — schools tour (National Theatre); Crave, random generations (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Human Body, Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); A Little Princess (Theatre by the Lake); A Christmas Carol (Rose); Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play (Young Vic); Let the Right One In, Cosmic Scallies, How My Light is Spent (Royal Exchange); Wolf Witch Giant Fairy (Royal Opera House); Extinct (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Litten Trees (Fuel); The Bee in Me (Unicorn); Going Through (Bush); Future Bodies (HOME); Nanjing (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Removal Men (Yard); Burning Doors (Belarus Free); Bodies, Midnight Movie (Royal Court).

GILES THOMASSound Designer

Giles Thomas trained in Sound Technology at Liverpool Academy for Performing Arts.

Giles Thomas’ work in theatre as sound designer includes Man and Boy, The LeftBehinds at the National Theatre; KENREX at Sheffield Theatres, Southwark Playhouse and The Other Palace; A Christmas Carol(ish) at Soho Place, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester International Festival and the Young Vic; Private Lives at the Donmar; Tao of Glass at Manchester International Festival & international tour; The Comeback in the West End.

As composer and sound designer, work includes ‘Master Harold’ …and the boys and Pomona (also the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Orange Tree) at the National Theatre; Dublin Gothic and An Octoroon at the Abbey, Dublin; Safe Space, Lord of the Flies, The House Party, The Vortex, Plenty and Cock at Chichester; The Crucible, The Contingency Plan and Contractions at Sheffield Theatres; The Glass Menagerie, The Almighty Sometimes and How My Light is Spent Wish List (also Royal Court) and Yen (also Royal Court) at the Royal Exchange Theatre; The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre; Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith and Birmingham Rep; Equus and A Streetcar Named Desire for English Touring Theatre.

SARAH GOLDINGMovement Director

Sarah Golding is a movement director and choreographer working across theatre and contemporary dance. She co-founded SAY Dance Company, whose work has featured at the National Theatre, across the West End, and internationally in New York and China. Her work on the West End production of Cruise earned her a nomination for a Black British Theatre Award. Choreographer/Movement Director credits include: KENREX: A True Crime Thriller (The Other Palace; Sheffield Theatres); Once on This Island (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); ARCANE Shanghai (Punchdrunk & SMG Live); Jamie Lloyd’s Romeo & Juliet (SAY, Duke of York’s Theatre); Jamie Lloyd’s The Effect (SAY, National Theatre; The Shed, New York); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tokyo; London Palladium); Cruise (Apollo Theatre; Duchess Theatre); Donna Summer Reimagined (Roundhouse); The Songs of Joni Mitchell (Roundhouse); Dave Okumu Concert (Roundhouse); The Wizard of Oz (Watermill Theatre); Say Something (SAY, NDC Wales national and international tour); Little Women (Park Theatre); REVERB (Luail National Dance Company of Ireland tour); The Album Live (SAY, international tour); The Album (SAY, UK tour); Skool Edition (SAY, UK tour); Call to Mind (Maiden Voyage, UK tour); Kalena (Phoenix Dance Theatre); The Intro (BalletBoyz UK tour); Blood and Belief (U.Mi-1, London Fashion Week); STATE (Mapdance 2021); Into the Woods (LAMDA; Edinburgh Fringe); Amélie (Urdang); Carrie (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Oh What a Lovely War (Mountview); Primetime (Royal Court). Performer credits include: STOMP (West End and international tour); The Album Live (SAY, Montreal); Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony 2022; The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court) Performer. Film credits include: The Marvels (Marvel Studios).

TAYLOR WILLIAMS, CSACasting Director

Film: Union County, Good One, Omni Loop. Broadway: Death of a Salesman, John Proctor is the Villain, All In, Romeo and Juliet, Stereophonic, Illinoise, An Enemy of the People, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, POTUS…, Slave Play, What the Constitution Means to Me. Upcoming: The Chaperones, Ancient History, Via Negativa, Thumb. TaylorWilliamsCasting.com

RAZ GOLDENAssociate Director

Raz Golden is a director of theatre and film. His work employs new and classical stories to dissect history, performance, and pop culture, while centering the stories of people of color. He has directed and developed work with Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Orchard Project, New York Theatre Workshop, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Second Stage, the National Queer Theatre, the Mercury Store, the Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, and NYU Tisch. He has been a NYTW 2050 Fellow, a Drama League 2019 Fellow, and a member of Roundabout Directors Group Cohort 2. As a filmmaker he has collaborated on numerous projects with the creative agency Adventure We Can.

Directing: Julius Caesar (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), The Seven, How to Catch Creation (Juilliard), Smote This (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Thanksgiving Play (Dorset Theatre Festival), What the Constitution Means to Me (Weston Theatre Company), Orestes (SUNY Purchase), Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues (Shakespeare & Company). Associate Directing: KENREX (dir. Ed Stambollouian); The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. Kip Williams); Romeo+Juliet, An Enemy of the People, Macbeth (dir. Sam Gold); Good Night Oscar (dir. Lisa Peterson).

SHOWTOWN THEATRICALSGeneral Manager

Broadway/tour: Titanique; Ragtime (LCT); Oh, Mary!; Parade (Broadway/tour); How to Dance in Ohio; Into the Woods (Broadway/tour); The Jimmy Awards. Off-Broadway: Audible Theater, Mexodus, Romy & Michele. Upcoming: Galileo, The Bad News Bears. showtown.nyc.

SUSAN KEAPPOCKCompany Manager

Susan Keappock is thrilled to be joining KENREX. Selected Broadway: Liberation, Elf, The Cottage, Death of a Salesman, Chicken & Biscuits, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chicago, Wicked, Once, Rock of Ages. Off-Broadway: N/A, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, reasons to be pretty, [title of show]. Other: The Jimmy Awards. Graduate of Texas A&M (BBA) and Brooklyn College (MFA). Proud ATPAM member. Love to Lois, George, and Harry.

SOPHIE LARIN/LJPMProduction Manager

Recent credits: Elevator Repair Service’s Ulysses at The Public, Ethan Slater’s Marcel on the Train at Classic Stage Company, BEDLAM’s Are The Bennet Girls Ok?. Larin specializes in building immersive worlds, blending theatrical realism with cartoon textures. You can see her work in a Plus 1s sketch comedy hour, or in The Magnet’s weekly Musical Megawatt.

AMBER JOHNSONProduction Stage Manager

Off-Broadway credits: OTHER, Distant Thunder, Between Two Knees. Touring credits: SIX (Boleyn Tour), Hamilton (Philip Tour), Waitress (1st National), MOTOWN The Musical (1st & 2nd National), The Book of Mormon (2nd National), and Jersey Boys (Chicago Tour). Amber is a proud member of the Absentee Shawnee Nation of Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Oklahoma. As always, Boomer Sooner!

SYDNEY SCHEERStage Manager

Broadway: Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Cult of Love, Yellow Face, Suffs; Off-Broadway: Other (ShowTown), The Keep Going Songs (LCT3), The Apiary (Second Stage), Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), White Girl In Danger (Second Stage/Vineyard), Public Works’ The Tempest, Suffs (The Public). Love and appreciation for her family, friends, and Christian.