Kevin T. Collins

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Kevin T. Collins began his career on the stage at the ripe old age of six, performing throughout his childhood and adolescence across the Bay Area in theaters such as Theatreworks in Palo Alto and San Jose Civic Light Opera, now the American Musical Theater of San Jose. He received numerous awards for Drama and Singing throughout Middle School, Junior High and High School, including AMT's Best Actor award for his portrayal of Groucho Marx in A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine, and two Best Musical wins, for A Day in Hollywood, and The King and I (in which he played the King). In 1997, Kevin applied and was accepted to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and he then spent three and half years studying at the CAP21 Musical Theater studio, followed by a semester at Stonestreet Film and Television. In 2001, after performing in numerous Tisch productions, including Camelot (Arthur), The Who's Tommy (The Specialist), City of Angels (Stine), and in his cross gendered portayal of Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera on the Tisch Mainstage, he graduated with Honors with a BFA in Drama, and began his life in the real world. Kevin's first professional work took him to the Outer Banks in North Carolina, where he spent two summers performing in Terrence Mann's The Lost Colony, the longest running show in the country (71 consecutive summers). Upon his return to New York, he worked heavily in the Off-Off-Broadway scene, originating roles in new works such as Lucifer in Angels, Beelzebub in Paradise Lost, Chico in One Way Ticket to Hell, Jack/Jenkins in The Gathering Room, Robert in For Love of the Boy, Eddie in The Blonde, Steve in Library Play, 11 characters in Real Live Sex on Stage, 12 characters in Please Please Please Love Me, and countless others. Shortly after graduating, Kevin also began working regularly in the anime world, voicing lead roles in the japanese series Berserk (Griffith), The Gokusen (on EWAM, Shin), Professor Go in Giant Robo, Ritsu in Hades Project Zeorymer, Aburatsubo in Magic User’s Club, Toru in Sadamitsu the Destroyer, Shirogarusu in Samurai Deeper Kyo, Tadaaki Amatsu in Shrine of the Morning Mist, Yagyu in Shura No Toki, Pulse in Twin Signal, Senbei in Ah My Goddess, and most recently in the upcoming Cartoon Network series Huntik, the Nikelodeon show Three Delivery, and the English overdub of the live-action japanese film, The Machine Girl. Many of these series can be found in Blockbuster and Virgin Megastores, and online at Netflix.com, or at www.animenewsnetwork.com. Kevin's film career began in 2004, and since then he has built an extensive resume of student films, shorts and features. Two of his first features, Aunt Rose and ZA: Zombies Anonymous, have been distributed on video and DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment and Well Go USA, respectively. Some of his other titles include, Tuesday, Black Mary, The Concoction (Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Wizard World Texas Film Festival, and the Best Comedy Award at the Wizard World Los Angeles Film Festival), One Step Behind (Winner, Best Picture, the ESRA Film Festival), and three features currently shopping for distribution: Inner Rage, The Sickness, and Inbetween (shot on location in London, Brighton, Birmingham, and Oxford, UK). In the past few years, Kevin has also made the leap onto the small screen, playing recurring roles on Guiding Light and Law & Order, Guest Starring on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and appearing on As the World Turns, Comedy Central's short-lived sitcom Stella, and the unaired pilots for Pros & Cons for ABC, MTV2’s The Williamsburgers, and Exit 19 for CBS (opposite Geena Davis). And when he isn't making movies or creating characters in new shows, Kevin spends a great deal of time in the sound booth. In the past year, he has recorded spots for Alliance Credit Union, Verizon, Thai Kitchen Products, Ebay Motors, and H&R Block, and was recently chosen to be the new voice of Time Warner Cable. Kevin's debut audiobook, Lone Survivor (Hachette Audio), was just awarded an Audiofile Earphones Award for Excellence, and his next books, Against Medical Advice, written by none other than James Patterson, Anita Shreve’s Testimony: A Novel, and Laurence Gonzales’ Everyday Survival will be released this summer. Museum-Goers can also hear Kevin’s voice around the country, since he began voicing audio guides with the New York based Acoustiguide, Inc. Kevin is also a singer/songwriter who released his first album, Crossing to Safety, in 1998. His second, Inbetween, is currently in pre-production.

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occupation=Stage, voice actor

Voice roles

* "The Machine Girl"
* "Three Delivery (Nikelodeon" (Shape Shifter)
* "Huntik (Cartoon Network"
* "Ah! My Goddess (TV)" (Senbei)
* "Berserk" (Griffith)
* "Bride of Darkness" (Yoichiro)
* "" (Professor Go Gakujin)
* "The Gokusen (EWAM)" (Shin Sawada)
* "Lunatic Night" (Mutsuki)
* "Magic User's Club" (Ayanojyo Aburatsubo)
* "Sadamitsu the Destroyer" (Toru)
* "Shrine of the Morning Mist" (Tadaaki Amatsu)
* "Twin Signal" (Pulse)
* "Samurai Deeper Kyo" (Shirogarusu)
* "The King of Braves GaoGaiGar" (Pizza)
* "Hades Project Zeorymer" (Ritsu)
* "Shura No Toki" (Yagyu)

tage roles

* "Angels the Musical (Broadway)" (Dasher)
* "Paradise Lost" (Beelzebub)
* "Angels the Musical (Off-Broadway)" (Lucifer)
* "City of Angels" (Off-Broadway)
* "Purple Hearts" (Whitman)
* "One Way Ticket to Hell" (Chico et al.)
* "For Love of the Boy" (Robert)
* "The Threepenny Opera" (Jenny Diver)
* "The Who's Tommy" (The Specialist)
* "Camelot" (Arthur)
* "The Gathering Room" (Jack/Jenkins)
* "The Blonde" (Eddie)
* "The Lost Colony" (Old Tom)
* "Please Please Please Love Me" (12 characters)
* "Real Live Sex on Stage" (11 characters)
* "Twelve Angry Men" (Juror Three)

Film roles

* "Aunt Rose" (Stewie)
* "Zombies Anonymous" (Louis)
* "Inbetween" (Jan Markowicz)
* "The Sickness" (Justo Tratch)
* "Inner Rage" (Max Whitey)
* "Black Mary" (Georgie)
* "Tuesday" (Brad)

TV roles

* "" (Renard Fox)
* "Exit 19 (Pilot, CBS)" (Jesse Johnson)
* "Law & Order (NBC)" (Assistant M.E., Recurring)
* "Guiding Light (CBS)" (NA Volunteer, Recurring)
* "As the World Turns (CBS)" (Drug Dealer)
* "Pros & Cons (Pilot, ABC)" (Mouse)
* "Stella (Comedy Central)" (Young Ad Guy)

External links

* [http://www.kevintcollins.com Kevintcollins.com] - Kevin's Official site
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* [http://www.factionoffools.org/acting-comp.html Faction of Fools] - contains bio of Kevin T. Collins
* [http://www.crystalacids.com/database/person/856/kevin-collins/ Kevin Collins] at the English Voice Actor & Production Staff Database
* [http://www.nyide.com/bio_Kevin_T_Collins.html Kevin Collins] Bio at New York Institute of Dance and Education