Kevin Heelan

Playwright

Kevin Heelan is an American playwright. He is the author of numerous plays, including Distant Fires, seen in New York off-Broadway at the Circle in the Square theatre. It was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award as best play and subsequently was produced in Los Angeles, starring Samuel L. Jackson, and was nominated for Hollywood's Ovation Award. Other plays include Right Behind the Flag, produced at Playwrights Horizons with Kevin Spacey, and Heartland, starring Sean Penn on Broadway. The Hope Zone was produced in New York in 1996 by Circle Rep and starred Olympia Dukakis. His screen adaptation of Split Cherry Tree, starring the late Colleen Dewhurst, was seen on HBO and subsequently nominated for an Academy Award as best live action short. Along with Norman Lear, Heelan wrote and co-produced the pilot episode of a television series, "704 Hauser". In 2008, Heelan’s one-act play was part of Atlantic Theatre Company’s 20th Anniversary Festival.

Currently, Heelan is an instructor at the Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Appears in
Right Behind the Flag