Biography

"Word is born"

The List, Editor's Highlight of the Fringe

"Jason Orange shakes off Take That to liberate the inarticulate and dispossessed in Jim Kenworth's call to arms"

Time Out Critics Choice

"Funny, feisty and strangely touching”

The Observer

“A 70 – minute high”

The Guardian

Jim made his debut as a playwright with the premiere of the lyric ‘street-drama’ Johnny Song at The Warehouse Theatre, Croydon in 1998. His second play, Gob, at The King’s Head, Islington, in 1999, won rave reviews including Time Out & What’s On Critics Choice and starred ex-Take That teen idol Jason Orange. Gob was revived at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2003 and earned the distinction of 2 five-star reviews from Three Weeks and The List including Editor’s Highlights of the Fringe. Gob was then transferred to The Courtyard Theatre, King’s Cross and ran successfully for four weeks. Gob was also produced by Harrogate Youth Theatre as part of their Festival of New Performance.

Theatre again produced Polar Bears as part of their Write On 2005 New Writing Festival. Office Guerrillas was selected to perform at Hampstead Theatre Start Nights. Office Guerrillas was also specially commended by The Literacy Consultancy in their TLC Scriptwriting competition and awarded a free professional critique. In August 2006 Jim wrote, directed and produced the black comedy Polar Bears at The Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In 2007 Pig was performed by Foundation students of E15 Drama School. In 2008 Jim was commissioned by Asian Elders Care Group EKTA to write a play about raising awareness of elder abuse in the London Borough of Newham. Everybody's World was successfully performed by volunteers in community centres across Newham.