KEVIN CAROLAN

2023 Headshot of Kevin Carolan - Actor

New Year, New Job!

Excited to be joining the company of 42nd St at Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA this week. It runs Feb 9th-25th, and so much more can be found at www.musical.org I hope the new year is treating everyone well. It’s been a little wet so far. But it feels like...

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Thanks 2023! Up next, 2024!

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year, and can’t wait to share some of the great ideas I have for the upcoming 12 months! I’m looking to expand my brand into a worldwide availability: to teach, lecture, moderate, host. Happy to share...

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Click Play below to see Kevin Carolan’s 2022 Reel 

Featured in Can You Ever Forgive Me? with Melissa McCarthy

Check out the reviews from Variety, NY TimesAARP, Vanity Fair, and Refinery29

Now performing in the North American Tour of Come From Away, click for tickets and date info!

Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy

Recently in the world premiere of CLUE On Stage at Bucks County Playhouse, as Colonel Mustard!

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

TELEVISION APPEARANCES

Kevin is on GOTHAM as Professor Dyson, and LAW & ORDER: SVU as Ronald Fleming. Click to watch!

Disney’s NEWSIES! The Broadway Musical is available for digital download on May 23rd, 2017!


Recently
 as

Baloo

in

The Jungle Book

Directed by Mary Zimmerman

“The appearance of Kevin Carolan as the fun-loving bear Baloo …With his ebullient manner and honey-laden voice on “Bear Necessities,” …kicks the show almost instantly to life.”

Entertainment Weekly

“Belushi-esqe lovability”

– Showbiz Chicago

“The heart and soul of the production… [Carolan] is still lovably goofy, but there’s also a bluesman living deep in his performance that lends the big bear a new depth.”

– Chicagoist

“GREAT CHARM”

– Chicago Theatre Addict

“A scene-stealing Carolan sings and jokes with booming voice perfection.”

– The Fourth Walsh

LOVABLE”

– Chicago Critic

Capturing every animal quality with expertly crafted performance [is] Kevin Carolan as Baloo the Bear…  Carolan accomplished the impossible with his fantastic turn as Baloo, the character created with the film vocals of late legendary Hollywood Hoosier Phil Harris”

– NWI Times

“STANDOUT PERFORMANCE”

– Chicago Stage Standard