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Kevin Burns is the prolific producer of literally hundreds of hours of critically acclaimed and award-winning television. His work can be seen on networks as diverse as FOX, National Geographic Channel, E!, Animal Planet, AMC, Bravo and History Channel. In 2003 he received his first of two Emmy Awards as Executive Producer for A&E’s critically acclaimed Biography series. In 2003, he was tapped by George Lucas and Lucasfilm to produce and direct the epic 150 minute documentary feature, Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy. In 2005, he teamed up with Superman Returns director Bryan Singer to produce and direct, Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman.

A film and television fan since childhood, Burns received a master’s degree in film from Boston University’s College of Communication in 1981. After a brief teaching stint, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began working as an executive at Twentieth Century Fox Television.

While at Fox, Burns co-founded Foxstar Productions, the production unit responsible for creating a series of critically acclaimed and highly rated Alien Nation movies for television. In 1994, while serving as Senior VP of Foxstar, Burns founded Van Ness Films, a non-fiction and documentary production unit. That same year, he met Jon Jashni, a Fox film executive who shared Burns' interest in the works of legendary Hollywood producer, Irwin Allen. In 1999, Burns and Jashni formed Synthesis Entertainment and began developing and producing remakes and sequels of the Allen properties, most notably the feature film versions of Poseidon (2006) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (scheduled for release in 2009). A television pilot for The Time Tunnel was produced for the Fox Network in 2002 and which was later released on DVD in 2006.

As president of Prometheus Entertainment (also formed in 1999), Burns continued to create and produce a wide variety of film and television programming, most notably, The Girls Next Door on E! (about the adventures of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's three live-in girlfriends) and "Hollywood Science" (for National Geographic Channel).

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