Photo: Braden Moran
Biography
Kevin Rich served as Artistic Director of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival from 2012-2017 and works professionally as an actor, director and playwright. His series of Shakespeare abridgments, The Billy Shakespeare Project, have been performed by students at University of Wisconsin - Parkside, Kenyon College, and Illinois State University. Plays for young audiences include The Magical Mind of Billy Shakespeare (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), From Nightmare to Normal (Northlight Theatre Academy), Midsummer: Bronx (Bradford High School), and his ten-minute play, Eight-Twenty-Eight, was a finalist for the Heideman Award (Humana Festival). Mr. Rich is also a member of Actors' Equity, the Screen Actors' Guild, and the acting faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a BA from Grinnell College and MFA from Yale School of Drama.
