Kevin DiPirro

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Biography

Kevin DiPirro is a writer and playwright in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. He teaches composition, performance, presentation, playwriting, and devised theater. He was educated at Swarthmore College and U.C. Berkeley and is currently obtaining an MFA in Creative Writing at SF State. Kevin has studied short story with Eavann Boland and acting with Joe Dowling at the School of Irish Studies in Dublin, Ireland. He subsequently spent two years teaching in Dublin and in Florence, Italy. Kevin's plays include Through Shite to Shannon, Mobl’d Queens ‘s Good; Big Fun, Renaissance Play(ge) and Hadleyburg. They have been produced in New York, Minneapolis and San Francisco at Mixed Blood, Henry Street Settlement, Actors Theater, and the Eureka theater.

Kevin has been awarded grants from the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. He has directed the site-specific Stanford production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365Plays on campus as well as the student devised theater piece, Propositions. He is currently commissioned to write for American Theatre magazine. His digital article, "Revising/Devising Student-Centered Performance" is due out this fall from CCC Online. He is presently working on a book project on performance and pedagogy in a graphical format. Originally from New York, Kevin now resides in Pacifica with his family of two children.

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