Jeff Kevin
Jeff Kevin or Jeffrey Kevin is an Australian actor best known for his comedic role of Arnold Feather in the television soap opera Number 96, a role he played from mid 1972 until the series ended in August 1977.
Prior to Number 96 Kevin had made several television guest appearances, including roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide and Division 4, and in police dramas The Long Arm and The Link Men.
In 1977 he became engaged to fellow Number 96 actor Suzanne Church. They married after that series ended in August 1977. In the late 1970s he acted in serial The Sullivans, made an appearance in Skyways, and in 1988 he briefly acted in the soap opera Home and Away.
He was a drama lecturer at Wollongong University, but retired in 2003.
Career
Education
TERTIARY EDUCATION
1990 University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Master of Creative Arts [MCA]
1969 University of NSW – National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Postgraduate Diploma in Theatre Performance
1966–67 University of NSW – National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Diploma in Acting
HONORARY
2004 Fellow of the University of Wollongong
TEACHING
University of Wollongong, NSW
Faculty of Creative Arts
2001–2003 Head: School of Music and Drama
2003 Acting Associate Dean
Community consultation
Theatre South: Wollongong
University Committees
NTEU Faculty representative [National Tertiary Education Union]
Faculty committees: Executive, Education, Postgraduate, and Academic Workloads
1995–2000 Lecturer in Acting/Directing
1993–94 Head: Theatre Strand
Lecturer in Acting/Directing
1987–92 Lecturer in Theatre Performance [Permanent position]
1986 Guest Lecturer: Acting/voice classes
TAFE
1984–1985 Curriculum development/classes in communication skills using drama techniques in the PEP (Participation and Equity Program), TAFE Western Sydney
1985 Facilitator Project result. Student devised production: 'TKO' [Technical Knock Out] TAFE Campbelltown
1983–84 University of Wollongong, Faculty of Creative Arts – Guest Lecturer: Acting and Voice.
NIDA
1970 University of NSW: Theatre Management
On-stage performances
- A CHRISTMAS CAROL – Charles Dickens – Role: Scrooge
- BEDROOM FARCE – Allen Ayckbourn
- DAVID WILLIAMS REVUE: Various roles
- HAMLET – Shakespeare – Role: Polonius
- HENRY V – Shakespeare – Various roles
- JUNO & THE PAYCOCK – Sean O’Casey – Role: Joxer Daley
- KANGAROO – Justin Fleming’s adaptation of the DH Lawrence novella – Role: Kangaroo
- KING O'MALLEY – Body & Ellis – Various roles
- KING RICHARD III – Shakespeare – Role: Clarence
- MACBETH – Shakespeare – Various roles
- MARGARET BARR DANCE THEATRE: Principal role
- MOTHER COURAGE – Bertolt Brecht – Role: Chaplain
- MOTHER GOOSE (Pantomime – Stevenage, Herts, UK) – Various roles
- THE OLD FAMILIAR JUICE – McNeil – Role: Dada
- ROOTED – Alex Buzo – Role: Bentley
- SAME TIME NEXT YEAR – Slade – Role: George
- SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER – William Congreve (Llandovery, Wales, and UK) – Various roles
- SIX OF ONE (UK tour) – Various roles
- SMALL CRAFT WARNING – Tennessee Williams – Role: Bobby
- THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE – Title role
- THE CHERRY ORCHARD – Chekhov – Role: Firs
- THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS – Ron Blair – Solo performance
- THE STUDENT PRINCE – Sigmund Romberg – Role: Lutz
- THE TIME IS NOT YET RIPE – Essen – Role: Prime Minister
- TIME GENTLEMEN – John Senczuk – Role: Ridley
- TOM JONES – Thomas Fielding – Roles: Partridge, Thwackem and Lord Fellamar
- TRUMPETS & RASBERRIES – Dario Fo – Various roles
- TWELFTH NIGHT – Shakespeare – Roles: Malvoilo & Orsino
Director
- THE ANNIVERSARY – Chekhov
- BLAKE – Heir
- CABARET – Kander & Ebb
- CHERRY ORCHARD – Chekhov
- GLASS MENAGERIE – Williams
- THE GONDOLIERS – Gilbert and Sullivan
- THE HARP IN THE SOUTH – Park
- HATING ALISON ASHLEY – Tullock
- HEDDA GABLER – Ibsen
- H.M.S. PINAFORE – Gilbert and Sullivan
- KID STAKES – Lawler
- LOVE BYTES – Devised from Shakespeare
- LULU – Wedekind
- MACBETH – Shakespeare
- MEASURE FOR MEASURE – Shakespeare
- PROPHESYING BACKWARDS – Senczuk & Nelson
- RUFF’S GUTS (Pub Theatre) – Writer and Director
- SPRING AWAKENING – Wedekind
- STEEL MAGNOLIAS – Harling
- STRIKE ME LUCKY – Co-writer – Devised Musical
- SUNRISE – Nowra
- THE AFRICAN QUEEN – Adapted for the stage by David McCubbin
- THE BEAR – Chekhov
- THE KID – Gow
- THE LONG & THE SHORT & THE TALL (Scots College, NSW) – Co-Director
- THE PROPOSAL – Chekhov
- UNDER MILK WOOD – Thomas
Television
- HOMICIDE, Crawford Productions – Guest Leads
- DIVISION 4, Crawford Productions – Guest Leads
- MATLOCK POLICE, Crawford Productions – Guest Leads
- THE SULLIVANS, Crawford Productions – Guest Leads
- SKYWAYS, Crawford Productions – Guest Lead
- EDEN HOUSE, A.B.C. Television
- CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, Channel Nine Production
- NUMBER 96, Cash Harman Productions, Continuing role of ARNOLD FEATHER
- SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Guest Lead
- The Miraculous Mellops, Millennium Pictures (Mini Series 1/2) Director, Karl Zwicky, Producer, Posie Graeme-Evans
- A FINE BODY OF GENTLEMEN, Geoff Burton Productions for ABC
Films
- NUMBER 96
- YOU CAN'T SEE ‘ROUND CORNERS
- THE SET
- EXPERIMENTAL FILMS, The National Film School, Beaconsfield UK
- STAR VIEW, Network Films