William Kernen
- Writer
- Casting Director
- Producer
William Kernen was born in Boise, Idaho on August 1, 1948. He grew up
in the Pacific Northwest, moved with his family to California in 1960
and spent the next 35 years living in Southern California. After
majoring in Psychology at the University of Redlands from 1966-1970, he
graduated cum laude, was Student-Athlete of the Year and immediately
signed a professional baseball contract with the Baltimore Orioles.
Following a three-year minor league career, he went into coaching,
first in high school and then at Orange Coast Junior College. From
there, he worked his way into major college baseball at California
State, Fullerton, the University of Illinois, California State,
Northridge and North Carolina State. Kernen's programs soon became
ranked in the Top 10 in the country, winning league and regional
championships in the NCAA, and ultimately an NCAA Division I National
Championship.
While at the top of a profession in big-time collegiate athletics, Kernen decided at the age of 47 to move to New York City in the summer of 1995 to pursue a career as a playwright. He studied at Columbia University with Eduardo Machado for the next two years. During this time, two full-length plays were written and produced in New York in 1997, And Other Fairy Tales and A Graveyard Symphony. In 1998, another full-length play was completed, Galleria degli Angeli, and a fourth, Musica de Mariposa, was completed in 1999. The former was a finalist in the Oglebay Institute National Playwriting Competition, 1997.
William Kernen is represented by the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency in New York City.
While at the top of a profession in big-time collegiate athletics, Kernen decided at the age of 47 to move to New York City in the summer of 1995 to pursue a career as a playwright. He studied at Columbia University with Eduardo Machado for the next two years. During this time, two full-length plays were written and produced in New York in 1997, And Other Fairy Tales and A Graveyard Symphony. In 1998, another full-length play was completed, Galleria degli Angeli, and a fourth, Musica de Mariposa, was completed in 1999. The former was a finalist in the Oglebay Institute National Playwriting Competition, 1997.
William Kernen is represented by the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency in New York City.