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A versatile award winning Stage/Film/Television actor, Kevin Lucero Less has performed in more than 100+ professional productions from Los Angeles to Chicago including: Wormwood (World premiere), Three Graces, The Magical Musical Machine, The Servant of Two Masters, 12 Ophelias (Midwest premiere), The Unconquered (Midwest premiere), No Darkness Round My Stone (U.S. premiere and Performink nomination), Dimly Perceived Threats to the System, Death Trap (Best Actor nomination), Oleanna (reprise), Sylvia (Best Actor winner and MAC nomination), The Glass Menagerie (Best Actor nomination), Dial M For Murder (reprise and Best Actor nomination), Black Coffee, Whos Afraid of Virgina Wolf, Tartuffe, Knock em Dead (Best Actor winner), Over the River and Through the Woods (Best Actor nomination), A Thing of Beauty, Mounted and Pinned (Best Actor winner), Giants Have us in Their Books (Best Actor winner), Into the Woods, Glengarry Glen Ross, Ways and Means, Burn This, Big Knife, Working, Suddenly Last Summer, Flauberts Latest, The Sacred Dance of Yellow Thunder, The Vanishing Act, Walking on the Moon, Moon Over Buffalo, Bagel Thieves (World premiere), The Bottomless Cup (World premiere), Vegas Skies (World premiere), Eternal (World premiere), Hot-lines (World premiere), The Perfect Ending (World premiere), Battle of the Network Stars (World premiere), Alky, Butterflies are Free, The Passion Play, The Review (World premiere), The Dutchman, Ubu Roi, South Pacific, and many more.
Selected Official Selections: Move Me (Sundance, Silver Lake, Sundance Institute at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cine Vegas, Tucson Film and Music, HoCo, Apple iTunes, Sundance Channel, Academy Award qualifier), Ordinary Day (TGAFP Austin Winner Best Screenplay, ION, Eurasian Almaty Kazakhstan, LA International, Arizona International, Academy Award qualifier), Food for Thought (Dixie Nomination Outstanding Original Story/Screenplay, Reno Nomination Best Short Film, Arizona International, New York City 24 Hour, Night at the Cinema), Sunday Morning (Phoenix Winner Best Director, Winner Best Cinematographer), A Beautifully Controlled Study of Provincial Melancholy (Boston, North Shore Winner Best Film), Passover (Malibu, Bloomsbury Park, Brooks Barrow Gallery Milwaukee), Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (Fright Night, Strange Behavior, Dead Pit Horror Radio, Fox Micro Cine, American Horrors, Indie Pix Network), Alpha (Pittsburgh Horror and Convention), 16th Street (Johns Hopkins, Kodak Challenge Finalist), Kiss of Night (New Orleans, New Mexico Winner Best Director, Chicago Horror), Twin Lakes (Oshkosh), Woyzeck (Scienema, Glasgow), The Fatherless (Columbia NUFF Honorable Mention), Distorted Reality (The Loft Challenge Winner Best Film, Back Alley), Reenactment (Art Center Highland Park), We Want (Chicago 24 Hour) and many more.
Selected Awards: Ovation Award, Silver Stage Award, Oxford Award, Clara Award, Golden Shore Award, Reel Award, Helen Gross Memorial Award, Lionel Rombach Award, Top Honor Award Art Center Highland Park, Honorable Mention Art Center Highland Park, Summa Cum Laude Honors, Deans List, and Membership into the Golden Key International Honors Society and Gamma Beta Phi Honors Society.
Selected Permanent Collections: Tucson Museum of Art, Iowa Biennial Print Archives, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Americas Biennial Research Archives, AMR Corporation, Helm Less Williams and Smith LLP, and the University of Arizona.
Selected Exhibitions: Albuquerque Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival, Tucson Museum of Art, Tribeca Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Sundance Institute at Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Art Institute Chicago, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Plus Gallery, Brooks Barrow Gallery, City Hall Highland Park, Eye Lounge, Anne Loucks Gallery, The Arvada Center, The Field Museum, Evanston Art Center, The Art Center Highland Park, San Luis Argentina Comic Con, Dinnerware Gallery, Union Gallery, Todd Walker Gallery, Cortesi Project Space, Shane House Gallery, Pima Arts Council Gallery, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Invisible Theatre Gallery, Upper Crust Gallery, Where Art Thou Gallery, Joseph Gross Gallery, and the City of Highland Park.
Selected Publishing/Distribution: New American Paintings, Travel + Leisure, Shade, The Hollywood Reporter, Sundance Channel, Apple iTunes, Indie Plex, Indie Pix, IFC, Encore, BBC, BBC America, CBS Video, Studio Visit, Tucson Home, and Persona.
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16th Street (2008)
Black rain
Award winning Writer / Director Max Pachman, has once again created an absolutely stunning motion picture with "16th Street". His films ("Anonymous") carry a quiet, voluptuously exquisite drama. The characters live in a dystopia, ever-near their lurking bankruptcy of solace. "16th Street", in true post-apocalyptic tone, takes place in a world near the end, a world where the rain pours acidic and crime has breached every levy, saturating the city streets. A young man (Dan Wilson), held out in a dilapidated house, is hunted by a psychopath (Kevin Lucero Less) looking for a way in. As the evening rain fall approaches the city, evil lurks in the leaking cracks. Pachman's Director of Photography Tyler Roth, deserves more than mention here for his spell-bounding cinematography; and creating a cinematic wonderland of melancholic beauty.
Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (2007)
Crazy Sexy Cool
Jeremy Hamley's sexy black and white thriller, is an essential viewing for the midnight movie horror fan. Earning Official Selections at the Fright Night Film Festival, The Strange Behavior Film Festival, Dead Pit Horror Radio and the Fox Theatre Micro Cine Festival, Hamley has showcased great talent and cinematic authority with his contemporary twist on the silent films of yesterday. It is the story of a Hit-man (Kevin Lucero Less), an innocent girl (Scream Queen Tiffany Shepis) and a misplaced bowling bag. Funny, scary, violent and with beautifully photographed Noir by James Arnett, "Kiss your Ass Goodbye" kicks out your teeth and calms you down with white hot razor blades.
A Beautifully Controlled Study of Provincial Melancholy (2007)
Back Beat
When Jack Kerouac took to the open road of America in the late 1940s, he arrived in 1957 with a mind opening philosophy conveying freedom, dissatisfaction and the search for higher meaning. 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Kerouac's "On the Road", bringing a new generation to the beat. It's only fitting that Lisa Tervo's film, Winner of the Golden Shore Award for Best Picture at the 2007 North Shore Short Film Festival should be appreciated now, it is after all a homage to Kerouac and what he found out there in America's heart of darkness. John (Kevin Lucero Less) and Miles (Mahon Brown) map the territory of confessional prose and fight to find their own place in the ever changing landscape. Inspired by the spontaneous structure of Bebop Jazz, Tervo's film explores a new generation's commentary on war, injustice and what it is to be here now.
Ruin (2003)
Go west dead man
Hailed by some as an instant classic in the zombie genre, Clayton Boen's "Ruin", gained the #2 ranking in the top Five Films on Single Reel in 2003. Released on the heels of Danny Boyle's comeback hit "28 Days Later", Boen's film like Boyle's, mirrors the dangers of rouge science in a capitalist society. A weight-loss drug side-effect plays the culprit in Boen's smart thriller, addressing Ephedra and other pharmaceuticals for the vain at heart. This is not your mother's zombie film. After the evacuation fails and infection begins, a group of young survivors must run for safety. Michael (Kevin Lucero Less) captains this enclave through the ravaged Southwest, into a darkness of his own making. Complete with love triangles, gore and hoards of moaning, snarling, blood seeping extras..."Ruin", is wrecking ball of cinematic pleasure.
Move Me (2006)
Surrounded by leaves
This is the critically acclaimed, "deft, subtle, exceptionally well acted" film by Writer/Producer/Editor/Director Jonathan Pulley. "Move Me" is an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Park City Utah 2007. From the first frame to the last, it is clear why this motion picture has captured the hearts of so many audiences. Touching and well crafted, "Move Me" conveys the struggle of a love shared between a father and his son. The two men navigate a relationship of silence, gestures and things left unsaid; longing for a connection and closure for their distant relationship. Graham (Kevin Lucero Less) has come to say goodbye to his father and somehow find a way to communicate his feelings. Herman (John Pulley) also struggles, only showing his emotions by repairing his son's car. On an evening approaching Christmas, a father and son share one last meal and confront their regrets, silence and forgiveness.
Sunday Morning (2004)
On the road again
"Sunday Morning" is a two time Winner at the Phoenix Film Festival 48HR. Challenge. Director Clayton Boen captured Best Director, for his intelligent sense of dramatic cinema and Justin Martinez took home the award for Best Cinematographer, adding him to the watch list of young mise en scene architects. This menacing narrative brings two men deep into the desert searching for redemption and closure in their stand between good and evil. Ward (Kevin Lucero Less) and Jim (Cory Casoni) represent the two opposing sides and in one explosive argument a choice will be made that will shatter the outcome of their lives. Brilliantly Produced by Derek Oishi, this Award Winning film is remarkably strong and mirrors all the great "road" pictures in American Cinema. Clayton Boen will prove, as he did with "Sunday Morning", that his Best Director win was no fluke and his career will live down a long road as well.
Food for Thought (2005)
Good Food
Ford Corl's masterpiece "Food for Thought", has won over National audiences with it's comedic charm and thoughtful story telling. Nominated for outstanding original screenplay/story at the Dixie International Film Festival Atlanta, Official Selection NYC 24HR Film Festival, Official Selection Arizona International Film Festival and Nominated for best short film at the Reno International Film Festival, "Food for Thought" has proved to be a triumphant debut for Writer/Producer/Director Ford Corl. "Food for Thought" is the story of a grocery store clerk, Robert (Nathan Lamadrid), who tries to find a way to be important. Robert's pseudo-gangster friend Malcolm (Kevin Lucero Less) gives him the push to make things happen, but Will (Kevin Lucero Less), Malcolm's evil twin brother, has some destructive plans for Robert's path to importance. Shot entirely on location at a Food City grocery store, "Food for Thought" bags the laughs and sends the audience home hungry for more.
Ordinary Day (2005)
No Ordinary Film
The independent film "Ordinary Day" has had International appeal, harboring Official Selections in the LA International Short Film Festival, The Great American Film Project Film Festival Austin (Winner best Screenplay - Darren Montgomery), Eurasian Almaty Kazakhstan International Film Festival Russia, Arizona International Film Festival, ION Fest International Film Festival Los Angeles and is an Academy Award Qualifier 2006. With a complex and violent narrative, "Ordinary Day" traces the path of Adam Waldorf (Kevin Lucero Less) who is thrown into tragedy by the hand of fate. Nathan Price directs this thriller, with a spot on award winning screenplay by Darren Montgomery. Shot on location in Tucson Arizona, this Super 16mm film achieves a stunning high budget look, while taking the audience down a path of despair.
Life List (2005)
A 16 minute flight
Kevin Lucero Less - Professor of Cinema, Tucson Museum of Art School. Tom Dunlap and Bill Kersey have reached nothing less than brilliance in this entertaining documentary. Original and at times touching, this is a wonderful production with smart editing and spot on music by Bill Kersey. Anyone who enjoys documentary films or bird culture will enjoy this gem of indie film making. Mr. Kersey is well know in the film festival market with his short films, "87 Topaz" and "Solace", with "Life List" he shows his talents for the understanding of the marriage of music and image. Mr. Dunlap will sure prove to be a film maker to watch as with "Life List" his gift for story, producing and hand held camera work leave many audience members hungry for more. Long live the documentary! and thanks to films like this, long live the art of originality as well.