Our story

BK Studios is a London based production and finance company established in September 2021, specialising in commercially driven content for global audiences.

BK Studios prides itself on working with exciting filmmakers with compelling stories to tell. 

Our Founder
Bill Kenwright
(1945 - 2023)

The late Bill Kenwright CBE founded BK Studios in 2021 alongside David Gilbery, CEO. Bill is a prolific Tony and Olivier award-winning theatre and film producer. His West End theatre productions include, Cabaret, Evita, John Tiffany’s acclaimed Let The Right One In, The Wizard of Oz, The Crucible, A Few Good Men starring Rob Lowe, All’s Well That End’s Well and Hay Fever starring Judi Dench, A Streetcar named Desire starring Jessica Lange, Night of the Iguana starring Woody Harrelson, and Cat on the Hot Tin Roof starring Brendan Fraser. Previous Broadway productions include, Dancing at Lughnasa (Tony Award); Medea (Tony Award), Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (4 Tony Awards); Théâtre de Complicite’s The Chairs (6 Tony nominations); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring Ashley Judd, The Glass Menagerie starring Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson, Primo, Festen (5 Olivier nominations), Equus, Passing Strange and Guys and Dolls. One of his most well-known productions is Blood Brothers (Olivier Award), which ran for 24 years in the West End, and also played for three years at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre.

Film includes: Stephen Frears’ Chéri written by Christopher Hampton and starring Michelle Pfeifer, Rufus Norris’s Broken, winner of the Best British Independent Film Award 2012, period thriller The Critic starring Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, and Mark Strong, The Shepherd starring John Travolta, and a stage capture of BKL’s West End hit musical Heathers based on the 1989 cult hit film, My Sister’s Bones, Burden, Off the Rails, Another Mother’s Son, The Hope Rooms, The Day After the Fair, Stepping Out, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, and Broken, which won Best Film at the British Independent Film Awards. Die Mommie Die! and Burden were both Sundance Festival Award winners in 2003 and 2018 respectively. My Pure Land was Britain’s submission for the Foreign Language Oscar.

In 2002 he received the Variety Club Bernard Delfont Award for his contribution to the entertainment industry, and in 2008 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Theatrical Management Association. In 2017, to celebrate his illustrious career in show business, he was honoured in the UK by BBC Radio 2 with a special episode of Friday Night is Music Night which was broadcast from the London Palladium.

Alongside his work as a producer, Bill was the Chairman of English Premier League Football Club, Everton - and a lifelong fan.