Kevin P. Kern- Assistant Professor of Performance

Screen Actor's Guild
Actor's Equity Association

Kevin Kern

Now in his 4th year at UWF, Kevin is an Assistant Professor of Theatre teaching courses in Performance and Directing.  A member of the Screen Actor’s Guild his credits include A Night At Sophie's, and Chatterbox.  Other SAG credits include 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 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 The Crucible, Guys & Dolls, and Once On This Island, an invited performance to the American College Theatre Festival’s 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 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.  He also wrote the book and lyrics for Isabella Met a Fella, a rock and roll Commedia Del Arte originally produced in southern California.  In 2009, he began a course in Shakespeare for the prisoners at Holman State Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama.

Kevin lives in Pensacola with his wife Natalie and son Sander.  They are expecting their second child in late September.