Kevin grew up performing in plays within the lively community theater scene in Helena, Montana. His curiosity for devised theater was sparked while working towards a bachelor’s degree in Wellington, New Zealand. He has since trained in improvisation under Susan Messing and others at the iO theater in Chicago. It was in Chicago he encountered the powerful red nose clown training offered by Paola Coletto. That work inspired him to take on the three year training offered by Giovanni Fusetti at HELIKOS, International School of Theatre Creation where Kevin graduated in May, 2014.
He has performed at Playwrights Horizons in New York City and in Seattle at the NW New Works Festival. Kevin has led theater and mask making/playing workshops in the USA, Slovenia and Turkey. He’s currently living in Istanbul working on a new series of masks and workshops.
Retreat is impossible. Has abstraction become a new academism? It does not matter: all movements become formal schools and all styles mere recipes. What is deplorable is to become an academic painter; but making academism a steppingstone is not at all to be deplored. The great Baroque and Mannerist painters did not scorn the art of their predecessors; by exaggerating it, they went beyond it.” -Octavio Paz, Alternating Current
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