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Ken Dooley, Executive Producer
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Ken Dooley is the screenwriter and Executive Producer of Bellevue Avenue. He wrote The Murder Trial of John Gordon, based on the trial of the last person executed in Rhode Island. As a result of the play, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee signed a pardon for John Gordon last June. He recently completed a screenplay based on his original play. Dooley wrote and directed a play based on the life of Red Auerbach entitled "The Auerbach Dynasty," Jeff Gill, the actor who played Red Auerbach, received the best actor award from the Critics of New England for 2011. His recent plays include Kristalnach in Cranston, and Love Nests and Side Effects, both of which will open at the Theater at Hollywood & Vine, Plymouth, MA, in 2013. He recently completed a book, "Judgment at Yokohama" based on a real life incident involving the capture and execution of Lt. Robert E. Thorpe during WWII. Thorpe, a Cranston native, was a neighbor of Dooley in Edgewood, Rhode Island. Dooley has written 37 other books, including MBA: Management by Auerbach, the biography of Red Auerbach, famed president and coach of the Boston Celtics. Dooley co-founded the America's Cup Hall of Fame in Bristol, RI. He wrote and directed "The Herreshoff Legacy", a one hour film based on the lives of Nathanael and John Herreshoff, the men who designed and built the early America's Cup Defenders in Bristol, RI. Dooley grew up in Cranston, Rhode Island and graduated from La Salle Academy and Providence College. He now lives in Newport, RI, birthplace of his mother who grew up during the Gilded Age. |