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THE OFFICIAL SCOOP
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Ken McCoy is
Chair of the Theatre Arts faculty at Stetson
University in DeLand, FL. Besides over 15
years of teaching acting, directing, voice,
and more, he has directed over 40
productions for the stage and acted as many
roles for stage, film, and television.
Recent professional credits include acting
Benjamin Franklin in the musical 1776 for the Huron Playhouse
(2006) and roles in several independent film productions,
including EyeonU Films’ award-winning short
Persistence. As a tenured professor
who holds a Ph.D., his name (“Dr.
McCoy”) has inspired many misguided birthday
gifts of Star Trek collectibles featuring
the character with the same name - a
situation which never fails to amuse his
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please send comments etc. to
kmccoy@stetson.edu.
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This page is a draft of my life story. As a
sketch, it is hasty, incomplete, and unfinished.
If you're interested in the whole story of my
flight to freedom, you'll have to wait for the
novelization. If you're an old
friend trying to catch up on my history before you
make that long-delayed phone call, read on...and
try and place yourself in the right time frame :)
I was born in Alabama, where I lived for my first
22 years. I drove a 2-toned 1967 Rambler, dated
wildly (you know who you are), waited tables and
tended bar, and went to graduate school in
Southern Illinois. After getting the MFA I spent a
summer in Mexico and moved to Chicago ~ where I
acted, directed, produced,
managed, etc. ~ then took a strange two-year detour to
Dubuque, Iowa. I gave it all that up
to get a Ph.D. in Ohio.
Beginning to tire
of the frozen tundra, it was also impossible to
get a tan at those latitudes. Got the degree,
wrote the dissertation with the sexiest title I
could come up with, looked for a job...and moved
to Florida with my beautiful wife
Michele and our house full of animals.
    
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