Kevin Patrick Robbins

Raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Kevin was an actor from the ripe young age of three, attending summer acting classes and developing his dry sense of humor. He appeared in the 1986 New Faces production of Gypsy at Hamilton's Great Hall and began a career as a child extra, of which he quickly tired. After attending Glendale Secondary School, Kevin spent six years at Brock University trying to discover himself. After three years as a business student, he made the transition into communication studies. While at Brock he spent his second year as a columnist for the student newspaper, The Brock Press. He later became that paper's layout designer and editor-in-chief. After his stay at Brock, he enrolled in the professional screenwriting program at Niagara College in Welland, Ontario, which was in its first year. He lost interest in the program, but not his writing. Not completing the program, he went on to study improvisation at Toronto's famed Second City, where he graduated from its training centre's conservatory program. In 2001, he formed Impatient Productions and began directing the longform improv ensemble The Impatients, which dissolved two years later. Kevin kept the company and started heading up his own training program for what is now the Impatient Theatre Company. Among his other improv-related accomplishments are: first-ever artistic director of the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton; founder and executive producer of the Toronto International Improv Festival (also known as the Jamboree); three-time showcase stage performer at the Chicago International Improv Festival. Kevin currently resides in Hamilton, where he remains artistic director of both the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton and the Impatient Theatre Co., which operates out of Toronto.