Playwright
After coaching at Cal State Northridge, Kernen left college baseball to pursue a career in theatre. He attended the dramatic writing program at Columbia University in New York City. As a playwright, Kernen produced multiple plays. In 1997, Kernen wrote and produced And Other Fairy Tales and A Graveyard Symphony; in the next years, Kernen followed these with the more ambitious Galleria degli Angeli (1998) and Musica de Mariposa (1999), the former of which was honored as a finalist in the Oglebay Institute National Playwriting Competition.
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