Kunken was raised on Long Island in Upper Brookville, New York. His father is a dentist and his mother is a former grade school teacher. Kunken received a B.A. degree from Tufts University in 1993. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School's Graduate Acting program, where as a member of the Drama Division's Group 26 he was awarded both The John Houseman Prize and the Pearl and Rolands Grant. His classmates included David Denman and Alan Tudyk.
Career
Kunken has appeared on Broadway as David Halberstam in David Auburn's The Columnist ; opposite Kathleen Turner in High ; Tom Stoppard’s Rock 'n' Roll ; Frost/Nixon ,; Festen ; and Proof. For his role as CFO Andrew Fastow in Lucy Prebble's Enron, he received a 2010 Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Play. Off-Broadway, he played Tim Andrews in the award-winning Richard Nelson cycle of Apple Plays, which includes That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, and Regular Singing in 2013 at The Public. He played the title role as Nikolai Nabakov in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Richard Nelson's Nikolai and the Others in 2013. He has appeared as Dr. Phil in the critically acclaimed production of Kate Fodor's romantic comedyRX ; as the Stage Manager in the 2009 David Cromer-directed revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town ; Theresa Rebeck's Our House ; Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons ; A Very Common Procedure by Courtney Baron at Manhattan Class Company ; Journals of Mihail Sebastian by David Auburn with the Keen Company in 2004 and Misalliance at the Roundabout Theatre Company. He performed in The Story, Henry VIII and A Dybbuk at the Public Theater. Regionally, Kunken has appeared in Quartermaine’s Terms, True West, Three Sisters as Solyony all at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; and Mister Roberts as Doc at the Kennedy Center in 2005, among many other credits. His television credits include: Unforgettable, Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, Gossip Girl, The Unusuals, New Amsterdam, Law & Order, ', ', The Sopranos, Spin City, Far East, Mary and Rhoda and The Affair. In film, Kunken's work includes The Wolf of Wall Street, Still Alice, Café Society, A Birder's Guide to Everything, The Bay, Price Check, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, All Good Things, Taking Woodstock, The Girl in the Park, Wait 'til This Year, Light and the Sufferer, and Bamboozled.
