Kevin R Free’s Daddy Playlist

Daddy wants to leave you something, but Daddy doesn’t know that what he has to give is what you want.

Kevin
R. Free has been making theater in New York City for 30 years and
narrating audiobooks for 25 years. He was the first black man to play
Bellomy in The Fantasticks in the production’s 57-year run Off-Broadway.
He won an Obie Award as the Producing Artistic Director of The Fire
This Time Festival in 2015, for producing world premiere plays of
playwrights of the African Diaspora. He was named a Golden Voice by
AudioFile Magazine in 2023. In 2024, his play, Swimming Uphill, written
for André De Shields and directed by Zhailon Levingston, received a New
Works Lab fellowship at the Apollo. He is the former Artistic Director
of Mile Square Theatre, where,  in his 3-year tenure, he produced four
world premiere plays, including Gabriel Diego Hernandez’s Quarter Rican.
The Daddy Playlist is the second play he has written and performed for
the HOT! Festival, after having had a blast last year performing "The Bitch Index."