[10] 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.
[14] He has appeared as Dr. Phil in the critically acclaimed production of Kate Fodor's romantic comedy RX (2012, Primary Stages production);[15] as the Stage Manager in the 2009 David Cromer-directed revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town (replacement as of January 5, 2010, Barrow Street Theatre);[16] Theresa Rebeck's Our House (2009, Playwrights Horizons);[17] Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons (2004);[18] A Very Common Procedure by Courtney Baron at Manhattan Class Company (2007)[19] (for which he received a Drama League Award nomination); Journals of Mihail Sebastian by David Auburn with the Keen Company in 2004[20] and Misalliance at the Roundabout Theatre Company (1997).
[25] Regionally, Kunken has appeared in Quartermaine’s Terms (2009),[26] True West (2009),[27] Three Sisters as Solyony (2008) all at the Williamstown Theatre Festival;[28] and Mister Roberts as Doc at the Kennedy Center in 2005,[29] among many other credits.
[32][33] In film, Kunken's work includes The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Still Alice (2014),[34] Café Society (2016), A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013),[35] The Bay (2012),[36] Price Check (2012),[37] Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), All Good Things (2010), Taking Woodstock (2009), The Girl in the Park (2008),[38] Wait 'til This Year, Light and the Sufferer (2014),[39] and Bamboozled (2000).
[40][41][33] Kunken and stage director Jenn Thompson were married in 2005[42][43][44] The couple reside in Brooklyn, New York with their daughter, Naomi,[1] whom they adopted from Ethiopia.