Kenny Yates

Kenny Yates is a half-Italian, half-Filipino actor, voice actor, feature film producer, and director and ice-hockey player based in Los Angeles. He’s been working in the entertainment industry since 1999. Kenny began his career in the entertainment industry as a child actor on the Daytime Emmy winning PBSkids show Zoom. He appeared on 80 episodes over two seasons and he can still speak 'Ubbi Dubbi' fluently. (google it, haha)

Kenny continued his acting career with roles in each of Aaron Seltzer & Jason Friedberg's spoof movies in the early 2000’s - Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans and The Starving Games to name a few. He recently appeared as Floyd in ‘Reboot Camp’, a mockumentary comedy with Eric Roberts, Ed Begley Jr. & David Koechner. He also co-stars in ‘Wolf Mountain’ alongside scene partner Danny Trejo. Kenny is also honored to be playing Peter Pan, the lead, in the upcoming feature film Before Never, a contemporary re-telling of the traditional Peter Pan story.

In the voice over world, Kenny voices Travis Higgins from Netflix’s brand new adult animated show Exploding Kittens, based off the popular table top card game of the same name. On Exploding Kittens, Kenny was able to work along side voiceover industry legends, Eric Bauza, Tom Kenny & Carlos Alazraqui. His voice also appears in video games as Conrad the Curator in the popular computer game franchise Return to Monkey Island and the English version of Prune Juice Cookie in the very successful Cookie Run Kingdom game.

Kenny continues his acting studies in Meisner Technique at Playhouse West in North Hollywood. He was also a member of the sketch comedy group ‘The Neighbors’, directed by Sean Whalen [Twister] at the same repertory.

Behind-the-Scenes, Kenny got his first industry gig on the 20th Century Fox/Regency film Date Movie. He continued as directors Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer's assistant on Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans & Vampires Suck. He was promoted to Associate Producer on their film Disaster Movie, and then bumped again to Co-Producer/VFX Supervisor on their films The Starving Games & Superfast! In the last four years, he’s produced nine features and he recently directed and produced the feature film, FINAL WAGER starring Michael Madsen and Tom Arnold.

Demos

• Character Reel
• Theatrical Reel
• Comedy Reel

Known For

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  Series Regular on PBSkids ZOOM

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  Spoof Film Veteran

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  Travis - NETFLIX'S EXPLODING KITTENS

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  Conrad the Curator - RETURN TO MONKEY ISLAND

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  Prune Juice Cookie - COOKIE RUN KINGDOM