Kinny studied Classical Ballet graduating R.A.D. Advanced in 1976. Further training in MIME and DANCE with Annie Stainer, Lindsay Kemp and at the Martha Graham School in New York, with Martha Graham, Pearl Laing and Helen McGeeghie. Voice teachers include Michael Aspinall, Elisabeth Brice, Arthur Oldham and Dr. Werner Hecht of the Berliner Ensemble. He has studied Kabuki with Gojo Masanosuke, Butoh with Katsu Ohno, and Commedia dell’ Arte with Carlo Mazzone Clementi.
He has featured in GODSPELL, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW and THE MOUSETRAP in London’s West End, and in rep. and tours of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, CHICAGO, MARAT/SADE, ADRIAN MOLE, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, ASSASSINS, CAFÉ DEBRIS and CABARET.
Kinny is a principle guest artist with THE LINDSAY KEMP COMPANY.
Kinny’s directing and creating work includes over 27 productions for Krazy Kat, including workshops, and now features integrated sign-language as a matter of course.
Extensively using puppets, figures, dolls and objects, Kinny has directed and choreographed work for ‘Lo Scarlo’ Italy, ‘Kinderteater Basta’ Holland, ‘Bridges Dance’ England, ‘The Scottish Mime Theatre’, ‘Khoros Dance Theatre’, ‘Dancescapers’ ‘Theatre Workshop Edinburgh’, and ‘Guizer Theatre Company’, all in Scotland, and for ‘The Paradise Club’ Zenith T.V. He created the Spider Shadow Ballet for Lindsay Kemp’s ‘Cinderella’, and choreographed T.S. Eliot’s ‘Sweeny Agonistes’ at the Traverse, Edinburgh.
Kinny is a charismatic and engaging teacher, with a lightness of touch and a vibrant sense of humour that allows for the release of ‘Emotion in Motion’.
Darren graduated from The Central School of Speech and Drama in 1997 having studied Drama and Education (BA Hons). He has since gone onto to study Person-centred Counselling (OCR) and continues with his British Sign Language studies (CACPD Level2). Darren is also in the final throws of his Integrative Counselling Diploma at City and Islington College and currently works with clients at MIND in Tower Hamlets.
Darren’s extensive experience as an actor includes appearances in film, on television and at various regional, touring and West End theatres, as well as performing with Krazy Kat Theatre Company.
Darren also works in the private and public sectors as a freelance role-play trainer, facilitator, writer-director and communication trainer.
Over the past nine years Darren has been actively involved in the writing and development of many new plays - as an actor, director, teacher, writer and dramaturge. He directed the Arts Council funded development of Rob Swinton’s The Marriage of True Minds, co-devised Krazy Kat’s What’s the Difference? and has directed at ALRA and Mountview Theatre Schools. He has run youth arts projects in Sweden, America and Russia and regularly teaches in Bahrain.
It is with great sadness that we announced the passing of co-founding director Alastair Scott Macmillan in October 2005. Please click here to read an appreciation of his contribution and legacy to Krazy Kat and Children's Theatre