Kevin P. Kern

Screen Actor's Guild
Actor's Equity Association

Kevin Kern

Kevin joined the UWF Theatre Department as an Assistant Professor in 2006.  A member of the Screen Actor’s Guild his credits include A Night At Sophie's, and One Thumb Up, as well as regional and national commercials and industrials for Ping Golf, Little Caesars Pizza, Honda, Sprint, Stroh's, Lee Sportswear, Golden Corral, The Game Show Network, Sony, and Direct TV. Also a member of the Actor's Equity Association, his live theatre credits include work at the Pasadena Shakespeare Company, The Geffen Playhouse, Shakespeare Festival L.A., Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum, and the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, for which he also served as Associate Artistic Director in charge of Educational Outreach.

At UWF his directing credits include Guys & Dolls, As You Like It, and Once On This Island, which was invited to the 2008 American College Theatre Festival’s Region 4 Festival in Clemson, SC.  He was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award from the students of UWF.

Kevin is a co-author of Empathic Resonance and Meryl Streep, an article published in The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and the sole author of an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, originally produced at The Madrid Theatre in Canoga Park, CA., and subsequently at UWF.  Kevin also wrote the book and lyrics for Isabella Met a Fella, a rock and roll Commedia Del Arte originally produced in southern California.

Kevin lives in Pensacola with his wife Natalie and a brand new baby boy, Sander Joseph.