Kevin Alicea
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Kevin Alicea is an actor and director from St. Louis, Missouri. A proud alum of The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program, Kevin has had the opportunity to play roles at Asolo Repertory, Virginia Repertory, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, St. Louis Shakespeare, Writers Theatre, A Red Orchid Theatre, and others. Kevin has also played television roles on The Chi (Showtime) and 61st Street (AMC & CW).
In addition to acting, he has directed at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Theatre Festival, and served as the Artistic Director of the Passage Theatre Company in Chicago. Kevin is a lifelong soccer player, having played Division I in college and professionally, and is a diehard Manchester United and LA Lakers fan. When he isn’t watching his teams inevitably underachieve or playing in multiple soccer leagues, he is probably watching a Jordan Peele or Ryan Coogler film (or anything involving Donald Glover), developing a spin on a classic play, or going to the beach. But...let's be real....he ain’t actually doing none of that.....he gotta be at rehearsal in 30 minutes.
About The Line
During his CRITICAL BREAKS residency, Kevin will continue developing The Line, a solo play in which one performer embodies both a father and son — one a famed police officer and the other a passionate social justice advocate – as their relationship comes to a head during the shooting of an unarmed Black man. Rather than presenting a story of hero and villain, The Line centers two men trying to understand one another. The work explores the tensions between family, policing, social justice, and the ways we attempt to understand the people closest to us.
The story is deeply personal to the artist, who grew up in St. Louis with a single mother and a partially absentee father who became a legendary police officer. The Line emerges from an experience during the Ferguson Protests, where Kevin found himself at the front lines, looking directly across at his father.
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