Kevin Cunningham

Kevin Cunningham is an award-winning New York based producer, director, writer, designer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and Executive Artistic Director of 3-Legged Dog.

He has produced over 150 ambitious interdisciplinary artworks since 2006. These works often defy genre classification. They include films, immersive performance, multi-media and interactive dance, opera and theater works, large-scale interactive installations, video mapping projects, interactive art, AR, VR, MR and code art. He has produced, directed and designed works on three continents.

In 1994, he began producing his own multimedia performance works as a writer, director and production designer at La Mama, PS 122, The Signature Theater, The Kitchen, 3LD and the Ontological Theater. Works include Automatic Earth, The Realism of Simple Machines, Degeneracy, Losing Something, Spy Garbo and with his frequent collaborator Chuck Mee, the immersive theater work Fire Island.

Over the last five years he has worked on the very large-scale immersive work called Not-Knowing with Mee. Not Knowing incorporates large scale holographic and immersive projection with tracked video mapping techniques to create a “mixed reality bridge” between cinematic and lived reality. He is also collaborating with Academy Award winner Carol Dysinger on the creation of an immersive performance and expanded cinema work called One Woman War based on Dysinger’s 16 years as a documentarian of life in war zones in Afghanistan.

Awards: Venice Biennale (2) , Sundance Film Festival (4) Prague Quadrennial (2), American Film Institute, New York and Hamptons Film Festivals, CPH:DOX. American Theater Wing Hewes Design Award, Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund Awards (2) Drama Desk Nominations (4).

In 2017, Angels Bone, the opera he produced with the Prototype Festival, won the Pulitzer Prize.

Fellowships: Nokia/Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology Program and the Future Imagination Collaboratory Fellowship at NYU Tisch.