Kevin Lucero Less

Award-winning actor/painter/photographer Kevin Lucero Less, graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. A versatile stage/film/television character actor, he has been performing professionally for over 25 years; in more than 250 productions, garnering over 2,000 performances. Along with the AADA company west, he also graduated from the University of Arizona School of Art (BFA Summa Cum Laude Honors), Hollywood Film Institute (C), and the Touch Therapy Institute at the National Holistic Institute Los Angeles (CMT with distinction). He attended further acting studies at the University of Colorado, Butte College, San Francisco State University, and Metropolitan State University. In 1995 he was a Contract Player on the ACTV Cable Television Soap "A Campus Affair", until his departure from the Series in 1996. Selected Film Festival Official Selections include: "Move Me" (Sundance Film Festival Park City Utah, Silver Lake Film Festival, Sundance Institute at Brooklyn Academy of Music New York City, Cine Vegas Film Festival, Tucson Film and Music Festival, HoCo Festival, Sundance Channel, Apple iTunes, Academy Award qualifier); "Ordinary Day" (TGAFP Austin Film Festival Winner Best Screenplay, ION Fest Film Festival Los Angeles, Eurasian Almaty Kazakhstan International Film Festival, LA International Short Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, Academy Award qualifier); "Food for Thought" (Dixie Film Festival Nomination Outstanding Original Story/Screenplay, Reno Film Festival Nomination Best Short Film, Arizona International Film Festival, New York City 24 Hour Film Festival, A Night at the Cinema Festival); "Sunday Morning" (Phoenix Film Festival Winner Best Director, Winner Best Cinematographer); "A Beautifully Controlled Study of Provincial Melancholy" (Boston Film Festival, North Shore Short Film Festival Winner Best Film); "Passover" (Malibu Film Festival, Bloomsbury Park Film Festival Winner Best Actor, Brooks Barrow Gallery Milwaukee); "Kiss Your Ass Goodbye" (Fright Night Film Festival, Strange Behavior Film Festival, Dead Pit Horror Radio, Micro Cine Festival Fox Theater, Indie Pix Network); "Kiss of Night" (New Mexico Horror Film Festival Winner Best Director, New Orleans Horror Film Festival, Chicago Horror Film Festival); "The Fatherless" (Columbia NUFF Honorable Mention, Kodak Challenge Finalist); "Twin Lakes" (Oshkosh Film Festival); "Cruel as a Wound or Prone" (Mise en Scene Film Festival Winner Best Actor); "16th Street" (Johns Hopkins Film Festival); "A City to Make Me" (San Luis Argentina Comic-Con); "We Want" (Chicago 24 Hour Film Festival); "Alpha" (Pittsburgh Horror Film Festival); "Distorted Reality" (North Shore Film Festival Winner Best Actor, Loft Cine Festival Challenge Winner Best Film, Back Alley Film Festival); "Woyzeck Project" (Scinema Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival); "Pawn" (Illinois International Film Festival Winner Best Experimental Film); "How to: Be a Man" (WHYY Youth Media Awards Philadelphia Winner 2nd Place, Metro West Film Festival Winner Outstanding Live Action Film, Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Highpeak Independent Film Festival New Mills England Nomination, Local Haunts Film Festival, Blow Up Film Festival, All American High School Film Festival); "Little Voice" (Chicago Horror Film Festival Nomination Director's Choice); "Fox Hunting" (IL International Film Festival), and many more. He has received several awards for best actor including: the Ovation Award, the Silver Stage Award, the Reel Award, the Oxford Award, the Clara Award, and the Golden Shore Award. Lucero has Written, Produced and Directed over 20 films including: "Re-en-act-ment", "It Ends with a Knife", "The Captain's Verses", "Passover", "Cruel as a Wound or (Prone)", "Affliction or (Halcyon)", and "Cellar Door". As a playwright, he has successfully produced his plays: "Wormwood: A German Expressionistic Dystopia", and "Surrounded by Leaves". He has works of Fine Art, Painting/Photography/Printmaking, in the Permanent Collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, American Medical Response Corporation, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Iowa Biennial Print Archive, The Cook Collection and the Americas Biennial Exhibition research archives. He has been published in the National Press Magazines: New American Paintings, Travel and Leisure Magazine, Tucson Home Magazine, Shade Magazine, and Studio Visit Magazine. Selected Fine Art Exhibitions include: Tucson Museum of Art (Into the Night, Arizona Biennial 03/05, Shelter), Albuquerque Museum of Art (Biennial Southwest), Field Museum (Cool Globes Chicago), Art Institute Chicago (Art Work 5), Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (Taking a Line for a Walk, Drawn, New Visions New Voices), University of Iowa Museum of Art (Print Biennial), Lessedra Gallery Sofia Bulgaria (World Print Annual), Evanston Art Center (Evanston Biennial), Plus Gallery Denver (Selections from New American Paintings), Brooks Barrow Gallery (Dystopiascope: L.A. the Big Nowhere), The Art Center Highland Park (Memory Territory), Joseph Gross Gallery, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Union Gallery, and many more. Additionally, Kevin Lucero Less is the Artistic Director of Halo One Productions UK, Co-Director of Dystopiascope Films, and Director of IAA Films.