Kevin Avery: COMEDIAN
Kevin Avery has been a stage rat all of his life. But the California native insists he's not a comedian-turned-actor. "I was hooked on acting long before I ever wrote a single joke. But stand-up always appealed to me. I memorized every Bill Cosby and Flip Wilson routine I could when I was a kid. It was an addiction."

Kevin grew up in the San Francisco bay area and moved to Alabama for several years to attend Tuskegee University. It was there that he began to seriously pursue the theater, being cast in such notable roles as Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” “Alec” in Ntozake Shange’s Spell #7, and Miss Roj, the over the top drag queen in The Colored Museum. However, Kevin insists his favorite role was as “Jesus” in a junior high version of The Passion Play. “I would forget my lines and then try to improvise them; but it didn’t quite work. So you got me and 12 apostles at the last supper, and I’m saying things like ‘One of you will betray me…please pass the soda.’ It was a mess.”

Eventually, Kevin came back to California, and has since taken the Bay Area comedy scene by storm. His acting background and wildly physical style of stand-up has made him a favorite in comedy clubs and colleges all over the country, bringing him to the semi-finals of the 1998 San Francisco Comedy Competition, and making him one of Metropolitan Magazines “Top 99 People to Watch.” Of his animated style of comedy, the San Francisco Chronicle writes “Avery is Amazing!”

Around the Bay Area, Kevin can be seen regularly at The Punchline, Cobb’s Comedy Club, The Improv, and Rooster T. Feather’s Comedy Club, as well as other popular venues
in the area.