| Jack Kenny | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5/06/02 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, television director, writer/producer |
| Years active | 1987–present |
Jack Kenny (born March 9 1958 [1]) is an American actor, television director, writer/producer, and the creator of the controversial NBC television show The Book of Daniel in 2006. Kenny also co-created the highly acclaimed but somewhat controversial comedy Titus (broadcast by Fox Network from 2000 and 2002) with his writing partner Brian Hargrove and comedian Christopher Titus. They produced 54 episodes of the Fox comedy. Kenny also directed nine of those episodes. Warehouse 13 is produced for Syfy by Universal Cable Productions. Jack Kenny (The Book of Daniel) is executive producer and showrunner.
Kenny is a graduate of the Juilliard School Theatre Center and a member of John Houseman's The Acting Company. His New York acting debut was in The Normal Heart at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, and his Broadway debut was as "Motel, the tailor" in the 25th anniversary production of Fiddler on the Roof.
In 2008, he signed on as show runner and Executive Producer of the original Syfy series Warehouse 13, helping to make it the most successful series in Syfy's history.
The Book of Daniel was cancelled after four episodes had aired. Though NBC gave no official explanation, the program had been the victim of a threatened advertiser boycott by the American Family Association and other groups for its content before a single episode had aired. In a 2006 article in The Advocate, Kenny, who is gay, took issue with the LGBT community for not acting when he and the show were attacked.[2]
Kenny was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Sally and John Joseph Kenny, Jr., a business manager for IBM.[1] His sister, Adele Kenny Sweetwood, is a VP at SAS Institute in North Carolina.
Kenny has been with his longtime partner, Michael Goodell, son of the late US Senator Charles Goodell of New York, and brother of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell since August 1982. The couple were legally married in California in July 2008.