Adam P. Kennedy

Adam P. Kennedy is a writer/publisher. He is the creator of the television shows “Africa/U.S.A.: The Connection” and “The World Connection,” “edu-tainment” programs for teens that aired on network television and PBS. SLEEP DEPRIVATION CHAMBER, a collaboration with his mother, playwright Adrienne Kennedy, won the 1996 Obie Award for Best New American Play. In 1997, Adam, along with Karen Lauder and Marcus Ticotin, founded Abandon Entertainment, a television and movie company that produced the feature films “Oxygen” and “Scotland PA” and a made for TV movie on TNT, “Thrill Seekers.” In 2007, his publishing company, Kennedy Publishing, won the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature for "Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles." A three-week theatrical run of the Beatles material launched the Public Lab Series at the Public Theatre in New York City. The play is published by Samuel French, Inc. He is the 2007 recipient of the Alumni Mentor Awards for Activism in Social Justice and the Arts from Manhattan Country School, his alma mater.