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Kevin R. Free is a multidisciplinary artist whose work as an actor, writer, director, and producer has been showcased and developed in many places, including the Moth Radio Hour; Project Y Theater; Flux Theater Ensemble; the Queerly Festival (of which he is now the curator); En Garde Arts and The Fire This Time Festival, where he served as Producing Artistic Director, winning an Obie for his work in 2015. His full-length plays include Night of the Living N-Word!! (Overall Excellence in Playwriting, FringeNYC 2016); A Raisin in the Salad: Black Plays for White People (New Black Fest Fellowship 2012; Eugene O’Neill Semi-Finalist 2013); Face Value (Henry Street Settlement Playwrights’ Project Grant, 2000); and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, or TRIPLE CONSCIOUSNESS. His newest play, A Hill On Which To Drown (a solo he’s developing for Andre De Shields) was just commissioned by the Historic Apollo’s New Works Lab.  His webseries, “Gemma & The Bear!” created with Eevin Hartsough, was an Official Selection of the New York Television Festival in 2016; and their new webseries, “Beckys Through History” was an Official Selection of Miami WebFest in 2021. An accomplished voice actor, he has recorded over 400 audiobooks, and was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile Magazine in 2023. He is now the Artistic Director of Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, NJ.