Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy is on the theater and writing faculty at Dartmouth College. He was also Core Faculty at the Bennington Writing Seminars. McCarthy is a Hollywood veteran having worked in development and production for a number of major studios and independent production companies. He worked notably on the feature films: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Leaving Las Vegas, and October Sky. He is also the author of a number of screenplays and is currently working on adapting two novels. McCarthy is also a theater director and has had plays produced in Los Angeles, Boston, and in Europe, where he was Artistic Director of a French theater company for five years. His latest project is Director of the documentary, Elizabeth Spencer: Landscapes of the Heart, a detailed look in high definition video—through interviews, archival photos and film clips—at an extraordinary woman’s life and work, viewed through the prism of the Southern upbringing that defined her. It is a brave woman’s reflections about class, about race, and about the changing role of women during a defining century in the history of the South, and the country.
