Kevin Asselin biography

Kevin Asselin

At Writers Theatre: As You Like It

Chicago credits include: Three Musketeers (Joseph Jefferson Nomination), A Little Night Music, Two Gentlemen Of Verona, As You Like It, School For Scandal, Short Shakespeare! Macbeth, and Romeo And Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Oedipus Complex (Goodman Theatre) and work with Shakespeare on the Green, Famous Door Theatre, Defiant Theatre, Rising Moon Playback Theatre and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Regionally he has spent five seasons with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, four seasons with Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame and worked with Off Square Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Illinois Repertory Theatre and Struthers Library. Asselin holds an MFA in Acting from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a fight director he has worked with Writers Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Joseph Jefferson Nomination), Shakespeare in the Parks, Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Light Opera Works, Apple Tree Theatre, Signal Ensemble Theatre, Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame, among others. Asselin received his advanced training from the Fight Directors of Canada and basic training from the Society of American Fight Directors.

[Bio as of February 2008]