Overview

Kerry is a second-generation Cypriot. He heads up Kyriacos And Company, a UK-based production company, making TV, FILM, and Theatre.  Jump to more info on Kyriacos And Company.

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He is a founder member and Chair of MENA Arts UK, a board member of the British Council's Arts Advisory Group and on the board of the performing arts and entertainment trade union, EQUITY.

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In June 2022 he also became the creative director Theatro Technis @ 26 Crowndale, the home of Theatro Technis.

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He is also developing various pieces of Theatre in the UK and US as a director, maker and producer.

 

He was Artistic Director & Chief Executive of Theatre Royal Stratford East from Sept 2004 to Sept 2017. For 13 years, he forged the Theatre's commitment to develop new work & provide a platform for voices under-represented. He won two Olivier awards, seven nominations, two What's on Stage Awards, and the UK Best Touring Theatre Award.  He forged the Theatre’s commitment to develop new work & provide a platform for voices under-represented. His inaugural season was nominated for an Olivier Award for ‘a powerful season of provocative work that reaches new audiences.’ Its hip-hop production Pied Piper won an Olivier that year, and Kerry’s production of Cinderella was nominated for an Olivier, the first pantomime nominated in the Awards’ history.  Other nominations since then include You Me Bum Bum Train, Roadkill, Oh What A Lovely War & The Government Inspector.  

 

In March 2018, Kerry won Artistic Director of The Year at the OFF WEST END Awards; and awarded the Freedom of the City of London. In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List, he was made an MBE for services to the Arts. He also gives some of his time working with large & small arts institutions to solve problems.