Kevin O'Marrison

Kevin began his professional life as an actor, not as a writer, in the Orson Welles/John Houseman Mercury Theatre productions. He followed this with further training for classical theatre with Eva LeGallienne, for the commercial theatre, with Robert "Bobby" Lewis, and voice work with Nina Moise. Following service in WWII and a brief stint in Hollywood films including Never Fear (1949) and The Golden Gloves Story (1950), he returned to New York where he appeared in more than fifty TV and radio shows, including the title role of Charlie Wild, Private Detective, both on radio and television. It was during this period that he became aware that most of the material he was devoting his life to was uninspiring, and he decided to try his hand as a playwright. His first play, "Three Days Before Yesterday," set in Athens in 415 B.C., had a staged reading by the Chelsea Theatre Center, was produced by the University of Minnesota, who published it in volume four of Playwrights for Tomorrow, under the title, "The Long War." Among his recent writings are The Passion of Brian Loftus and The Dead File. Kevin was a good friend of Cliff Carpenter, and can be heard in these ART productions: "Alonzo's Watch" (2005), My Friend Irma, "Mr. Pip", "Laughing Man", Bobby Benson: "The Rescue of Cactus Maggie", and Escape: "One Eight Apache". He adapted his one of his stage plays into these audio plays, which ART performed: "On ice" and "On Line".