{"id":4861,"date":"2016-02-24T22:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4861"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:41:26","slug":"kevin-asselin-about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4861","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Asselin: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=5002\">listen to his interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:68.73869%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kevin-Kelly-Gorham-photo-April-2014-1024x681.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kevin-Kelly-Gorham-photo-April-2014-1024x681.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kevin-Kelly-Gorham-photo-April-2014-1024x681.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kevin-Kelly-Gorham-photo-April-2014-1024x681.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kevin-Kelly-Gorham-photo-April-2014-1024x681.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1800&#038;ssl=1 1800w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kevin-Kelly-Gorham-photo-April-2014-1024x681.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=2000&#038;ssl=1 2000w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1703\" data-id=\"6863\" data-link=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?attachment_id=6863\" data-url=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kevin-Kelly-Gorham-photo-April-2014-1024x681.jpg\" data-width=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kevin-Kelly-Gorham-photo-April-2014-1024x681.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:31.26131%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/C17C4A8D-F161-4461-9ABC-74F4EAD180148.png?strip=info&#038;w=119&#038;ssl=1 119w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"84\" data-id=\"6862\" data-link=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?attachment_id=6862\" data-url=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/C17C4A8D-F161-4461-9ABC-74F4EAD180148.png\" data-width=\"119\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/C17C4A8D-F161-4461-9ABC-74F4EAD180148.png?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silvergate-Photo-1024x768.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silvergate-Photo-1024x768.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silvergate-Photo-1024x768.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silvergate-Photo-1024x768.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silvergate-Photo-1024x768.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1800&#038;ssl=1 1800w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silvergate-Photo-1024x768.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=2000&#038;ssl=1 2000w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1920\" data-id=\"6864\" data-link=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?attachment_id=6864\" data-url=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silvergate-Photo-1024x768.jpg\" data-width=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silvergate-Photo-1024x768.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Asselin is currently the Executive Artistic Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareintheparks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montana Shakespeare<\/a> where he provides both financial and artistic oversight of all programing.&nbsp; Prior to assuming his current position, Kevin worked with Shakespeare in the Parks for 13 seasons as an actor, fight director, director and educator. &nbsp;With MSIP he has directed productions of <em>As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Man of La Mancha <\/em>and <em>The Robben Island Bible <\/em>among others.&nbsp; A proud member of Actors Equity his Chicago acting credits include several productions with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoshakes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Shakespeare Theater<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerstheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writers Theater<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmantheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodman Theater<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steppenwolf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steppenwolf Theatre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defianttheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defiant Theatre<\/a>, Famous Door, Shakespeare on the Green, The Chicago Symphony among others.&nbsp; Regional credits include 10 seasons with the <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespeare.nd.edu\/notre-dame-shakespeare-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklahomashakespeare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Parks<\/a>, Illinois Repertory Theater, Papermill Theater, Plymouth Repertory, Struthers Library and others.&nbsp;&nbsp; Asselin is a two time Joseph Jefferson nominated fight director and has staged fights for over 40 different theatres.&nbsp; He has been a Resident Fight Director with <a href=\"http:\/\/americanplayers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American Players Theatre<\/a>, The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Theatre OCU-at Oklahoma City University and holds actor combatant certifications with the Fight Directors of Canada and the Society of American Fight Directors.&nbsp; Additionally Kevin was an Associate Professor of Movement and Acting at Oklahoma City University and has taught or worked as a Guest Artist with the Plymouth State University, Ball State, Kenyon College, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, American Players Theatre, and Interlochen Academy. &nbsp;He holds an MFA in Acting from the Unviversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Science in Music and Theatre from Plymouth State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to listen to his interview. Kevin Asselin is currently the Executive Artistic Director of Montana Shakespeare where he provides both financial and artistic oversight of all programing.&nbsp; Prior to assuming his current position, Kevin worked with Shakespeare in the Parks for 13 seasons as an actor, fight director, director and educator. &nbsp;With MSIP<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4861' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-1gp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8503,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4861\/revisions\/8503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}