Member Profiles
Kevin Anderson
Biography
Kevin Anderson made his Off-Broadway debut in Steppenwolf's Orphans. Kevin's subsequent returns to the stage have been as varying as they were lauded, from the world premiere of Sunset Boulevard in London to Death of Salesman on Broadway to a heartbreaking turn in I Never Sang For My Father at Steppenwolf.
Watch & Listen
Q & A With Kevin Anderson
Q. What's your favorite book set in or about suburbia?
A. Most of what I read is sort of anti-suburbia! One book that affected me when I was young was On the Road by Jack Kerouac. It's not exactly suburbia, but it's about characters that desperately want out of the conventional suburban life. This kind of writing has always appealed to me, being a child of the ’60s. I first read it totally by chance in an apartment I was subletting in NYC about 25 years ago. It was on the bookshelf there and I just picked it up and was so riveted I couldn't put it down. Growing up in north-suburban Gurnee, I related to these bohemian characters travelling the country exploring possibly a deeper, more spontaneous way of existing. Reading this book definitely inspired my love of travelling and avoiding the kind of settled, suburban lifestyle that most Americans seem to strive for.
Credits & Awards
Film
Charlotte's Web; Doe Boy; Gregory's Two Girls; A Thousand Acres; Firelight; Eye of God; Hoffa; Rising Sun; About Last Night; Liebestraum; Sleeping With the Enemy; In Country; Orphans; A Walk on the Moon; Miles From Home.
Theatre
Broadway: Come Back, Little Sheba; Brooklyn: the musical; Death of a Salesman; Orpheus Descending
London: Sunset Boulevard
Off-Broadway: Speaking in Tongues; The Red Address; Brilliant Traces; Moonchildren
Goodman Theatre: Pal Joey; Death of a Salesman
London: Dinner with Friends
Television
Skin (FOX); Power and Beauty (Showtime); Monday Night Mayhem (TNT); Nothing Sacred (ABC); The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (NBC); The Wrong Man; Orpheus Descending (TNT).
Awards
Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award (Death of a Salesman); Tony Award nomination (Death of a Salesman); Theatre World Award (Orphans); Joseph Jefferson Award (Orphans); Golden Globe nomination (Nothing Sacred).