Kenny Yun is an award winning solo theater maker and director. He has created six solo performance works.
He was one of the three instructors at The Marsh, a nationally recognized solo performance theater and development space, where he co-taught for a decade with Charlie Varon.
He is one of the longest serving and first Asian American solo theater teachers in the Bay Area.
After training on the East Coast with physical theater based clown and mask teachers such as Chris Bayes and Budi Miller, he is also a devisor in New York and San Francisco.
Kenny is an apprentice of Chris Bayes, head of physical acting at Yale school of drama.
Latest
2026
Starting physical theater based clown apprenticeship with Chris Bayes.
2025
Completed the Pandemonium Studio clown teacher training program with Chris Bayes, head of physical acting at the Yale School of Drama.
As part of the Stanford Humanities Fellowship Program 2025, mentored a Bay Area MD in playwriting on his first script that was about anesthesia induced dreams.
With brilliant Bay Area solo theater teacher Joyful Raven of Berkeley Rep, taught solo performance at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference and then with Mark Kenward at the AWP Los Angeles Writer’s Conference.
Integrating Mythology and Cosmology
The book I remember most from childhood is D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths.
I am fortunate to have studied with professors in the Pacific Graduate Institute’s Mythological Studies department and at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies.