Kevin Lane Dearinger: Sharing a Life through Memoir and Verse

Kevin Lane Dearinger [Dare-in-jer] [he, his] is a retired Broadway actor-singer and English teacher. His publications include The Theatrical Life of Eleanor Robson Belmont, The Bard in the Bluegrass, Marie Prescott, Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre, several volumes of poetry, two memoirs (Bad Sex in Kentucky and On Stage with Bette Davis), as well as several plays.

His work attempts to keep time with his Kentucky heritage, his love of family, his LGBTQ identity, and his own erratic pulse.

This program was funded in part by the Kentucky Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.