Kenny Yun Embodied Solo Theatre Director and Coach
About Kenny

Kenny's Bio

“Supreme Laughs” – SF Chronicle

“Funny and poignant” – SF Examiner

“Best Solo Show” – Bay Area Reporter

 

 

Kenny has spent most of his life in healing, recovery, and spiritual communities. He is one of the long time solo performer teachers in the bay area and as of 2025 started teaching in new york.

Many of his students and collaborators have performed all over the world.

He has performed in standup comedy, plays, solo theatre, tv commercials, and short films.

He was mentored in poetry and writing by Karen Finley, acclaimed performance artist and NYU Tisch political arts professor.

Kenny has a BA in English Lit from UC Berkeley.

Training

Solo Theater, The Marsh

  • Assistant and then co-teacher of Create Your Own Solo Performance with Theatre Bay Area Directing Award recipient Charlie Varon for a decade at The Marsh.

 

Lucid Body

  • Inaugural conservatory program Founded by Fay Simpson, head of movement at NYU Tisch’s graduate acting program
  • Acting, Scene Study, Monologue, Clown, Voice & Speech

 

Clown & Physical Theatre

  • Clown Intensives & Teacher Training Program with Chris Bayes Head of Physical Acting at Yale
  • Balinese Mask with Textwork with Budi Miller
  • Clown: NYU Julia Proctor, Spymonkey Aitor Basauri, Elizabeth Baron, Karen Light, and Ryan Pater
  • LeCoq intensive with Pig Irgon
  • Mime and Physical Theatre with James Donlon & Flying Actor Studio
  • Physical Acting, Theatre of the Oppressed at Berkeley Rep
  • Certification in theatrical choreography with New International Performing Arts Institute in Berlin.

 

Devising

  • Something from Nothing Intensive with Pig Iron
  • Devised playwriting with The Assembly Theater Project

 

Playwriting

  • Intensive with David Henry Hwang

 

Drama Therapy

  • Facilitator Training with the Center for The Living Arts

 

 

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