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Kenneth is a Storyteller & Technologist advancing Pro-Western ideas & Personal Sovereignty. His career and influence extends to Cinema, Episodics, Advertising & open-source platform development.
His unique upbringing in a southern family's carnival / amusement business coupled with Jesuit influences instilled a desire for independence, lifelong-learning, and counter-culturalism in his work.
Kenneth enjoys falling back on the skill-sets he learned as a VFX supervisor, hardware hacker, and socio-political commentator to push the limits of what is possible, and thought-provoking, to the screen.
Important tropes involved in Stevenson's work include bodily autonomy, the virtue of suffering, self-governance, diversity of thought, voluntaryism, and the struggle of displaced transcendentalists. Stevenson frequently draws inspiration from punk / y'alternative rock music and Libertarianism to express his frustrations with centralized power and oppressive ideologies.
While studying at Ball State University, his network blossomed from a club into a creative incubator, and later a handful of startups due to a scholarship he received from David Letterman.
His first feature film Cheery Point (New World OrdeRx) was a science fiction exploration of a totalitarian medical security state set in an apocalyptic America. The 2012 student film featured an ensemble cast shot on a shoestring budget and was distributed internationally. In 2014 he experimented with television while crafting a series he called Rapture-- featuring Lew Temple (The Endless, The Walking Dead, Atlas Shrugged) and Rob Pralgo (The Vampire Diaries). In June of 2018, Stevenson's series Cerebral was recognized at SeriesFest as one of 13 official selections internationally in the Drama category. He has worked for Time Warner, SONY, was awarded a scholarship in 2021 from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity to briefly study in Washington D.C.
A dual entrepreneur and artist at heart, Stevenson co-founded & served as CEO of Digital Alliance in Chicagoland for a decade to service nonprofits and brands with their video marketing before returning to Kentuckiana to operate his own creative boutique.
He works as a solutions architect & commercial screenwriter / director for liberty-loving Brands, Agencies, and Think Tanks. He develops original content and podcasts for the broader movement via his platform-- Thermidor.
