Kevin Cunningham is a New York City-based playwright, director, designer and producer, specializing in large-scale live multimedia performance. He is the Executive Artistic Director for 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group, the literary curator for the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and production designer for the Bang On A Can Festival at Lincoln Center. This year, he was named Emerging Theater Artist of the Year by the National Theater Conference. Most recently he directed and wrote The Realism of Simple Machines at La Mama and House of Bugs at the Ontological Theater, and produced and designed lighting for no lies: an evening about listening at PS 122. He works frequently as a video designer, production designer, director or producer for many theater and media companies, and has especially enjoyed his work at Lincoln Center, the Signature Theater, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater and the Kitchen. Through 3-Legged Dog, Cunningham’s work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation U.S./Mexico Fund, The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, The Peg Santvoord Foundation, The Heathcote Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art. He has received fellowships or awards from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, ArtMatters Inc. and The National Endowment for the Arts among others.

Over the next two years Cunningham will produce Jill Szuchmacher’s Yield at the Ontological Theater, Mike Taylor’s If I Were You at the Kitchen and his own Automatic Earth at Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York. Automatic Earth will then move to Mexico City for a full production that will represent the culmination of a series of seminars on the relationship between technical and artistic disciplines in multimedia theater and performance taught by 3-Legged Dog members and associates and presented in collaboration with Ocesa Presenta, and the Instituto Nacionale de Bellas Artes.