Kevin Alicea
Kevin is a director, actor, educator, and former professional soccer player whose work centers ensemble-driven process, identity-conscious storytelling, and equitable creative practice. Holding an MFA in Theatre from the University of San Diego, he has served as Co-Artistic Director of the Passage Theatre (Chicago) and taught theatre and acting at Niles North and Niles West High Schools, as well as the University of Virginia.
As an actor and human, he prioritizes finding the ugly and the beautiful in humanity and creating spaces where artists can take risks. Kevin continues to build a career centered around acting, directing, and artistic leadership, championing new voices and community-rooted narratives.
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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