{"id":5464,"date":"2017-06-20T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5464"},"modified":"2022-08-16T17:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:13:26","slug":"kevin-rich-about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5464","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Rich:  About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" data-id=\"8090\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kmrich.jpg?resize=300%2C452&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kmrich.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kmrich.jpg?resize=46%2C70&amp;ssl=1 46w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"639\" data-id=\"8091\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Shakespeare2040th20logo_Final.jpg?resize=661%2C639&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Shakespeare2040th20logo_Final.jpg?w=661&amp;ssl=1 661w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Shakespeare2040th20logo_Final.jpg?resize=70%2C68&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Shakespeare2040th20logo_Final.jpg?resize=24%2C24&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Shakespeare2040th20logo_Final.jpg?resize=36%2C36&amp;ssl=1 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=5470\">listen to his interview.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Rich is now in his fifth and final season as Artistic Director at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/illinoisshakes.com\/\">Illinois Shakespeare Festival <\/a>&#8211; Kevin has recently taken &nbsp;a new position at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/theatredance\/\">University of Colorado &#8211; Boulder<\/a> to help develop programming in Applied Shakespeare. &nbsp;This summer marks ISF&#8217;s 40th anniversary season featuring, A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, a 6-person CYMBELINE, I HEART JULIET, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improvisedshakespeare.com\/\">Improvised Shakespeare Company<\/a>. &nbsp;As an actor, Kevin has appeared at Milwaukee Shakespeare, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoshakes.com\/\">Chicago Shakespeare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kyshakespeare.com\/\">Kentucky Shakespeare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeare.org\/\">Shakespeare and Company<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcs.org\/\">Portland Center Stage<\/a>, San Jose Rep, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalerep.org\/\">Yale Rep<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atcweb.org\/\">American Theatre Company<\/a>. Kevin is directing I HEART JULIET by the <a href=\"http:\/\/qbrothersofficial.com\/\">Q Brothers Collective<\/a>, the latest in their series of Shakespearean ad-rap-tations that includes THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS, FUNK IT UP ABOUT NOTHIN, OTHELLO: THE REMIX and Q GENTS. Kevin founded the&nbsp;Illinois Shakespeare Festival\u2019s \u201cnew work initiative\u201d over the past 5 seasons, culminating in this commission of I HEART JULIET;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to listen to his interview. Kevin Rich is now in his fifth and final season as Artistic Director at the&nbsp;Illinois Shakespeare Festival &#8211; Kevin has recently taken &nbsp;a new position at University of Colorado &#8211; Boulder to help develop programming in Applied Shakespeare. &nbsp;This summer marks ISF&#8217;s 40th anniversary season featuring, A MIDSUMMER<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5464' 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-5464","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-1q8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5464","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=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5464\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}