Biography

Kevin combined a highly successful early performing career with an equally successful writing/directing/producing life. Critically acclaimed appearances in London's West End, and at the Royal National Theatre, and on BBC, ITV, and C4 television, alongside a prolific writing and directing career. Producing over 200 shows at the Edinburgh Festival, receiving Best New Play, Best New Venue, several Spirit of the Fringe awards. He also co-produced Bob Carlton's From a Jack to a King at the Ambassadors Theatre, London. In recent years, he made his first feature Punk Strut - the Movie, described as The Commitments meets Spinal Tap. Since teaming up with Kathryn S Kraus, forming K4K Films, they have produced three more features: Speed Love (starring Britain's First Lady of the Musical, Elaine Paige), Tom and His Zombie Wife (homage to Romero) and A Reel Life (a film about a man who lives his life on film) Plus, numerous prize-winning Shorts, which continue to show on the Worldwide Festival circuit.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kevin Short

Kevin grew up in Greater Manchester, gaining his first professional job, and his Equity card, at the age of fourteen. He played 'Alan Platt' in Granada Television's 'Coronation Street'. This appearance led to training at Jepson College of Dance and Drama in Oldham, Lancashire, and later, to his training in weekly Repertory at The Coliseum Theatre, in Oldham.

After appearances in local theatre, namely; Manchester Library Theatre, Manchester Stables Theatre, he fled to London to begin his stage career. He soon put his all round training in acting, singing, and dancing, to good use, appearing in musicals such as 'High Diplomacy' at the Westminster Theatre, 'Liberty Ranch' at the Greenwich Theatre, 'The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner' at the Shaw Theatre, London. Frank Dunlop chose him to play the title role in Webber and Rice's 'Jacob's Journey' which was the first half of the original 'Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat' (in which he also played one of the brothers) at the Albery Theatre, London - This was the real beginning of his long stage and television career, during which he has performed regularly in London's West End, and at the Royal National Theatre, as well as his many screen roles.

Kevin has combined a successful writing career alongside his many theatre and television roles, and today, continues to be an independent writer, director, and filmmaker, under his early 1970's PRS songwriting alias of Kevin Short.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kevin Short