Kevin Kane

Kevin Kane

Kevin Kane is a writer, musician, and playwright. His Negro League version of Casey at the Bat, called “Breaking the Line with the Mudville Nine” was written for and first performed at the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame.  Since then Kevin has done readings of his poem at New York City’s 92nd Street Y, at many libraries and colleges, including a reading last summer in Kansas City, at the National Negro League Museum.  His play, A Love of the Game, was first developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.  He has had several plays produced in New York City and in regional theaters, was a performance representative for August Wilson, and taught theater for ten years at Wagner College on Staten Island. 

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