Kevin P. Kern- Associate Professor of Performance

Screen Actor's Guild
Actor's Equity Association

Kevin Kern

Now in his 6th year at UWF, Kevin is an Associate Professor of Theatre primarily teaching courses in Acting and Improvisation. A member of the Screen Actors Guild his credits include the feature films A Night At Sophie's, and Chatterbox as well as regional and national commercials and industrials for Ping Golf, Little Caesars Pizza, Honda, Sprint, Stroh's, Lee Sportswear, Golden Corral, 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, Pensacola Shakespeare Theatre and the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company.
Professional directing credits include The Comedy Of Errors at Kingsmen Shakespeare, Bye Bye Birdie at The Madrid Theatre in Canoga Park, CA., and Much Ado About Nothing at Pensacola Shakespeare Theatre, for which he also serves as Artistic Director.  At UWF his directing credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Crucible, Guys & Dolls, and Once On This Island, an invited performance to the American College Theatre Festival Region 4 Festival in 2008.  

He was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award from the students of UWF, and the 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award from the office of Student Transitions.  Kevin is the author of an article titled Schooled at Holman: What 10 Prisoners Taught Me About Shakespeare, published in Southern Theatre Magazine, a co-author of Empathic Resonance and Meryl Streep, published in The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and the sole author of an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, originally produced at The Madrid Theatre in Canoga Park, CA., and subsequently at UWF.  He serves on the Board of Directors for the Florida Theatre Conference. 

Kevin lives in Pensacola with his wife Natalie and sons Sander and Aidan.