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Peter Kjenaas, Bio
Producer, SportsBlast, LLC
Peter Kjenaas (pronounced “Chenus”) is
producer at Los Angeles-based SportsBlast,
LLC, an animation development and
production company for the sports world. As
producer, Kjenaas is responsible for
managing the overall functions of the
company as well as much of the writing. He
produces all publications and creative
projects of SportsBlast, LLC including the
animated series, The Kellys, which portrays
the stock car racing world from the
perspective of a racing family.
Currently Kjenaas also is the president of
Cartwright Entertainment, Inc. and the
executive director of Happy House, a non-
profit foundation that delivers seminars on
building better families. At Cartwright
Entertainment, Inc., he supervises the
development and production of animated
works, audio books, documentaries, stage
plays, screenplays and teleplays.
During his career of more than two decades
as a professional in the entertainment
business, Kjenaas has worked at both the
Kern Shakespeare Festival and the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival. He produced, co-
wrote and edited Nancy Cartwright’s
autobiography and one-woman show, “My
Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy,” and wrote “The
Snow Queen,” “In Search of Fellini” and “A
Day in The Life.” He also founded Artists
Without Nets and Mountain Shakespeare
Festival.
Kjenaas earned his bachelor’s degree in
theater arts and foreign languages from San
Francisco State University. He is a member
of the Dramatists Guild, the Screen Actors
Guild and the Actors Equity Association. For
his work, Kjenaas received two Aurora Gold
Awards, an Accolade and a Houston Film
Fest Award.
Producer, SportsBlast, LLC
Peter Kjenaas (pronounced “Chenus”) is
producer at Los Angeles-based SportsBlast,
LLC, an animation development and
production company for the sports world. As
producer, Kjenaas is responsible for
managing the overall functions of the
company as well as much of the writing. He
produces all publications and creative
projects of SportsBlast, LLC including the
animated series, The Kellys, which portrays
the stock car racing world from the
perspective of a racing family.
Currently Kjenaas also is the president of
Cartwright Entertainment, Inc. and the
executive director of Happy House, a non-
profit foundation that delivers seminars on
building better families. At Cartwright
Entertainment, Inc., he supervises the
development and production of animated
works, audio books, documentaries, stage
plays, screenplays and teleplays.
During his career of more than two decades
as a professional in the entertainment
business, Kjenaas has worked at both the
Kern Shakespeare Festival and the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival. He produced, co-
wrote and edited Nancy Cartwright’s
autobiography and one-woman show, “My
Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy,” and wrote “The
Snow Queen,” “In Search of Fellini” and “A
Day in The Life.” He also founded Artists
Without Nets and Mountain Shakespeare
Festival.
Kjenaas earned his bachelor’s degree in
theater arts and foreign languages from San
Francisco State University. He is a member
of the Dramatists Guild, the Screen Actors
Guild and the Actors Equity Association. For
his work, Kjenaas received two Aurora Gold
Awards, an Accolade and a Houston Film
Fest Award.
Professional Resume
Artistic Director
Mountain Shakespeare
Festival
Director
Mountain Shakespeare Festival
Midsummer Nights Dream
As You Like It
You Can't Take It With You
Kern Shakespeare Festival (While Associate
Artistic Director)
Love’s Labours Lost
Comedy of Errors
King Lear
San Jose Stage Company
Wilde West
ACT Ashland, OR
Fortinbras
Spectrum Theater, San Francisco
Curse of The Starving Class
The Lover and All Men are Whores
Rogue Music Theatre
The Snow Queen
Focus Central
Taming of the Shrew
Romeo and Julliet
Currently setting up 2009 season for
Mountain Shakespeare Festival
Professional Actor
Portland Center Stage
Measure for Measure (Angelo)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine)
Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Syracuse)
God’s Country (Parmenter)
Cyrano (La Bret and Cyrano)
Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt)
Ghosts (Oswald)
Merry Wives (Fenton)
Kern Shakespeare Festival
Hamlet (Hamlet)
Midsummer Nights Dream (Bottom)
Coriolanus (Coriolanus)
Othello (Iago)
Merchant of Venice (Bassanio)
As You Like It (Jaques)
King Lear (Edgar)
Berkeley Shakespeare Festival (Now
California Shakespeare)
Richard II and Henry IV i (Hotspur)
The Tempest (Ferdinand)
Rogue Music Theatre
Music Man (Harold Hill)
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Film
The Girl of the Limberlost
Terror on Alcatraz
TV
The Nowhere Man
Commercials and Industrials
Dozens
Professional Writer
Creator/Director
“The Kellys,” Nascar.com for SportsBlast,
LLC. 40 episodes.
(Houston Film Fest and Aurora Awards.)
Plays Produced
“In Search of Fellini,” one woman show for
Nancy Cartwright (Dramalogue Award)
“My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy,” stage version
“The Snow Queen,” for Rogue Music Theatre
Biography
“My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy,” edited for
Nancy Cartwright, best seller.
Documentary
“A Day in the Life,” (Aurora Award)
Currently writing and producing for Cartwright
Entertainment, Inc.
Professional Teaching
Five seasons with Oregon Shakespeare
Festival touring program
Three seasons as workshop teacher with
OSF
PCPA, Three Sisters directing project with
advanced students
Bakersfield College, 5 years as adjunct
faculty in theater instruction
OSF, Portland Center Stage, Stage Combat
choreographer
Guilds and Education
Member of Dramatists Guild, SAG and AEA.
Graduate BA in Theater, SFSU (Jules Irving
achievement award)
Bi-ligual, Spanish
Producer
"A Day in the Life," documentary, Aurora
Award
Founder, Spectrum Theatre, San Francisco
Co-Founder, Artists Without Net, Los Angeles
Co-Founder, Mountain Shakespeare Festival,
Frazier Park, CA
"My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy," Edinburgh
Fringe Festival
"The Kellys," Nascar.com, Houston Film Fest
Award and Aurora Award
Artistic Director
Mountain Shakespeare
Festival
Director
Mountain Shakespeare Festival
Midsummer Nights Dream
As You Like It
You Can't Take It With You
Kern Shakespeare Festival (While Associate
Artistic Director)
Love’s Labours Lost
Comedy of Errors
King Lear
San Jose Stage Company
Wilde West
ACT Ashland, OR
Fortinbras
Spectrum Theater, San Francisco
Curse of The Starving Class
The Lover and All Men are Whores
Rogue Music Theatre
The Snow Queen
Focus Central
Taming of the Shrew
Romeo and Julliet
Currently setting up 2009 season for
Mountain Shakespeare Festival
Professional Actor
Portland Center Stage
Measure for Measure (Angelo)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine)
Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Syracuse)
God’s Country (Parmenter)
Cyrano (La Bret and Cyrano)
Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt)
Ghosts (Oswald)
Merry Wives (Fenton)
Kern Shakespeare Festival
Hamlet (Hamlet)
Midsummer Nights Dream (Bottom)
Coriolanus (Coriolanus)
Othello (Iago)
Merchant of Venice (Bassanio)
As You Like It (Jaques)
King Lear (Edgar)
Berkeley Shakespeare Festival (Now
California Shakespeare)
Richard II and Henry IV i (Hotspur)
The Tempest (Ferdinand)
Rogue Music Theatre
Music Man (Harold Hill)
ON CAMERA
Film
The Girl of the Limberlost
Terror on Alcatraz
TV
The Nowhere Man
Commercials and Industrials
Dozens
Professional Writer
Creator/Director
“The Kellys,” Nascar.com for SportsBlast,
LLC. 40 episodes.
(Houston Film Fest and Aurora Awards.)
Plays Produced
“In Search of Fellini,” one woman show for
Nancy Cartwright (Dramalogue Award)
“My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy,” stage version
“The Snow Queen,” for Rogue Music Theatre
Biography
“My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy,” edited for
Nancy Cartwright, best seller.
Documentary
“A Day in the Life,” (Aurora Award)
Currently writing and producing for Cartwright
Entertainment, Inc.
Professional Teaching
Five seasons with Oregon Shakespeare
Festival touring program
Three seasons as workshop teacher with
OSF
PCPA, Three Sisters directing project with
advanced students
Bakersfield College, 5 years as adjunct
faculty in theater instruction
OSF, Portland Center Stage, Stage Combat
choreographer
Guilds and Education
Member of Dramatists Guild, SAG and AEA.
Graduate BA in Theater, SFSU (Jules Irving
achievement award)
Bi-ligual, Spanish
Producer
"A Day in the Life," documentary, Aurora
Award
Founder, Spectrum Theatre, San Francisco
Co-Founder, Artists Without Net, Los Angeles
Co-Founder, Mountain Shakespeare Festival,
Frazier Park, CA
"My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy," Edinburgh
Fringe Festival
"The Kellys," Nascar.com, Houston Film Fest
Award and Aurora Award
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