Kevin Rich
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 Bil... Read more
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.