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Ken Holmes was born in Teaneck, New Jersey in the United States, and his family moved to Vermont when he was three. Ken always had a passion for performing. In first grade, he would act out in front of his classmates pretending to be several characters, including a fundamentalist preacher who warned the kids of an impending apocalypse. He would later be home-schooled, but his love of acting continued. He spent long hours as a child in his room taping pseudo-radio programs on his tape recorder, where countless characters (all of whom he would do the voices for) dropped by to be interviewed. He also acted in a couple of home-school plays. When he was twelve, Ken landed a role as Robin in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at Castleton State College (now Castleton University) in Vermont. It was this experience that made him realize that performance and a career in the arts was what he wanted to do with his life.
In 2006, he spent a semester abroad in London where he went to a play nearly every night, sometimes seeing several in one day. While there, he took a master class on the craft of acting with Jeremy Irons. The following year, he attended Castleton State College where he studied Theatre with a concentration in Acting and Directing and a minor in Writing. Ken graduated from CSC cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre.
Since graduating, Ken has been going stronger than ever, acting in films and plays, as well as writing. Film work includes the Burglar in "Cold in July" with Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, and directed by Jim Mickle; a Hipster in "Hits" with Matt Walsh, James Adomian, Wyatt Cenac, Michael Cera, David Koechner, Amy Sedaris, Julia Stiles, Derek Waters, and directed by David Cross; and Nikola Tesla in the New England Emmy Award-winning TV show "The Folklorist."
Ken has been a lead, supporting, and featured actor in over thirty films, and is also a screenplay writer. He is the founder of the film company Rain & Neon Productions.- Writer
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Karen Klami is known for Zoom Shorts (2020), I Love You, Maria and Trumpilton: An American Musical Parody (2023).- Writer
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Burnham is an award-winning writer of seventeen books, taught writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for fifteen years, and as of 2023, has been at Castleton University in Vermont for twenty-seven years. He has won the Part-Time Faculty Award at Castleton and led a group of Castleton students for a semester in London.
He has appeared in twenty plays. His favorite roles are Falstaff, Sir Toby Belch, and Mr. Peachum. Burnham has written twelve plays, including "The Loves of Horace Greeley," which was featured in the 250th anniversary of his town in Vermont, and "Palm Leaf Dialogues," which won the Nor-Eastern Playwriting Contest in 2011.
He is a co-creator and writer with Karen Klami of "Trumpilton: An American Musical Parody," that was performed Off-Broadway in 2022, and co-creator of the award-winning web-series "Zoom Shorts" with Klami and his son Ken Holmes. Burnham has also partnered with Karen Klami in creating the film and stage production company, Klami/Holmes Productions.- Producer
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