About

Kevin Stuart Brodie’s day job is as a high school history teacher, but he has been writing and publishing most of his adult life. He has published essays in the Santa Cruz Spectacle, Grassroots Economic Organizing (where he once served as contributing editor), and poetry in a number of publications including Sojourners. Kevin has done a number of poetry readings throughout southern New England. He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

A few years ago, a story that had tormented him for months was consistently refusing to be written as a novel, despite Mr. Brodie’s best efforts to turn it into one. He finally realized that he actually saw the story as a movie and wrote his first screenplay, “Ashes.” That script, work shopped at the Pulse Ensemble Theater in New York City, placed in both the Writer’s Digest and Century City Film Festival competitions.  It was also a quarter finalist in the 2012 Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriting.

Incurably infected with the screenwriting bug, Kevin has since written four others, and all have been work shopped in New York with Pulse. One of his most recent efforts, “Season of Mists,” has won eighteen different contests and festivals and reached the semifinal round of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. Mr. Brodie recently assisted San Francisco area producer Brant Smith (“Quality of Life”) with script development and on set script supervision for his forthcoming project, “In World War.” Kevin is a graduate of UCLA’s MFA program, Dov Simens’ Film School, and Robert McKee’s Story Seminar.

Recently, Mr. Brodie has branched out into play writing.  He has had three one act plays produced at the Playhouse on Park theater in West Hartford, Connecticut–two of which have produced in other venues, including a U.S. Army base in Germany. His two act play “Invincible Summer” has been staged for several readings and is scheduled for production at the Hole in the Wall theatre in New Britain, CT in May 2024. Another full length play, “Save the Man” was recently staged for a reading at the Ellington Room in New York, NY and he won the 2024 Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival one act play competition.