Bio
Photo: Jena Herrmann
Kevin Herrmann is an actor currently located in Phoenix, Arizona. His first artistic home was at Mesa Community College, where he performed in several productions, including Life Is A Dream, Noises Off, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. He also wrote two short plays, Time Bomb and How to Write a Play in Twenty Minutes, which debuted at MCC.
Kevin took his first step onto the screen with the Star Wars fan film, Spirits of the Force. The creative team continued the endeavor with Fool’s Errand and Reflections of Evil, thus creating a trilogy of films with Kevin in a leading role. Soon after, he starred in the feature Adventures of Getting Over the Girl and the featurette St. Awesome and the Shotgun Knights. Following these was Silhouette, in which Kevin starred and drafted the screenplay; this short film won First Place in the IFP/Phx 48-Hour Film Challenge in 2006.
Kevin continued his education at Arizona State University. He performed in two main-stage plays, Love’s Fire and dark play or stories for boys. During this time, Tight Stitch Productions had begun developing the sci-fi short Probed, and Kevin was cast in the leading role. Probed received its world premiere at the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival in 2008. In 2009, it moved on to play at Phoenix Comicon and the Phoenix Film Festival.
Kevin was an active participant in the IFP/Phx Beat-the-Clock series in 2008-09, which offered three separate film challenges. He wrote Appetite For Justice (48-Hour challenge), starred in and co-wrote The Guilty (36-Hour), and starred in and co-wrote Following Suit (24-Hour). Each film won First Place in its respective competition. Kevin was awarded Best Actor in the 24-Hour challenge for Following Suit, and nominated for Best Actor in the competition finals.
Kevin graduated from ASU in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. In April of 2009, he performed the controversial role of Dylan Klebold in Stray Cat Theatre‘s production of columbinus, which received six ariZoni awards, including Overall Production. Kevin was also nominated as an Actor in a Major Role.
In 2010, Kevin performed on stage in Beau Jest at Hale Centre Theatre, and in 12th Night of the Living Dead at Stray Cat Theatre. That same year began with the launch of the sci-fi web series PROBED:signals, in which Kevin was the writer and lead actor. Kevin was honored as On-Camera Talent with a Rocky Mountain Emmy award for his role as Carter Fox.
In April 2011, the video Cult Status (written, directed, and starring Kevin) was released online, produced by The Ellipses Project, LLC. Following that, he appeared at Hale Centre Theatre in the leading role as Nick in Over the River and Through the Woods. As soon as that production closed in July, Kevin jumped into the IFP Phoenix 48-Hour film challenge with the Colorblind Films team; the end result was writing and starring in Altar Ego. In October 2011, Kevin was honored to receive his second Rocky Mountain Emmy award, this time as Director for Cult Status.
Kevin’s next appearance was In Distant Shadows, which was first screened at the IFP Phoenix Breakout Film Challenge. Around this time, the online video A Day in the Life at McDowell Village was released, which is a virtual tour of a senior community that highlights Kevin’s abilities as a video host. He was then seen in the pilot episode of New World Order, which premiered on Christmas Day 2011 on AZ-TV.
Another world premiere soon followed in January 2012, as the featurette Addict was screened at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. Addict‘s Arizona premiere occurred later in April at the FilmBar in Phoenix. In-between those screenings, Kevin filmed lead roles for Jake Burggraff’s Game Theory and Greg McAlarney’s Coffee Grip, as well as a supporting action role in Angel Ruiz’s Interceptor.
It was an absolute blast working with you again, Kevin. You blew us all away with your performance and somehow managed to make what could have been a very silly character into something real. I really can’t thank you enough.
–Greg McAlarney (Writer/Director “Coffee Grip”)
Kevin! You are one of the most talented actors I have ever worked with. It was an honor to work with you. I can’t even begin to tell you how impressed I was with you throughout the entire process. Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
–Devin Berko (Writer/Director “Addict”; Ber Co. Productions)
I am always impressed with his raw talent, preparedness, attention to detail, and professionalism. … He’s creative and intelligent, a combination of skills that gives him an edge in his craft.
–Webb Pickersgill (Owner, Bassline Digital, LLC; 2009 Arizona Filmmaker of the Year)
We are very proud of Kevin’s work and his example and commitment to the Theatre and the Theatre Program here at MCC … He is reliable, mature, friendly, and cooperative.
–Lyn Dutson (Former Artistic Director, MCC Theatre Outback)
You can be assured of his earnest love of theatre and film. … Kevin is capable of working at a professional theatre level. … His character analysis work and interpretation of character express a high degree of creativity.
–Kevin Dressler (MCC Theatre faculty; Co-Founder of Southwest Shakespeare Company)
The acting is uniformly excellent, and positively illuminated by the presence of its two leads, each of whom approaches his role with a distinct and distinctly terrifying intensity. As Harris, Brandon Wiley is a hurricane of anger and cunning, spitting out pages of brutal dialogue without ever resorting to scenery-chewing. Kevin Herrmann’s Klebold is the eye of that hurricane, a subtler but no less vengeful monster who briefly earns our sympathy in sequences where he sputters internal dialogues about why he wants out of his tormented teenaged life.
–columbinus review; Robrt Pela, Phoenix New Times; April 7, 2009
Two actors also play the two murderers with spine-tingling and venomous zeal. You would think that Kevin Herrmann’s Dylan and Brandon Wiley’s Eric were the two students reborn. The entire ensemble is magnificent and terrifyingly recreates these mixed up kids’ difficult lives.
–columbinus review; Chris Curcio, KBAQ; April 13, 2009
…the psychosexual cyberspace drama dark play or stories for boys pays off big time … It’s disturbing and unpredictable … It’s also surprisingly funny, with some wonderful bit parts by “Netizens” Kevin Herrmann and Carly Kastner.
–dark play or stories for boys review; Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic; March 2, 2008
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