Kevin Kling has led a typically incredible life and has been telling about it for almost fifty years. As a nationally acclaimed storyteller and NPR regular, Kling is constantly looking for patterns, connections and the surprising intersections that connect us to each other and to the world. With a heartfelt ode to love and nods to the gods, Kling unravels the tangled threads that have guided him to an unexpected destination.

Join us for a wonderful free evening of stories!

Produced in partnership with the Acadia Repertory Theatre. Please note UNRAVELED will be presented at Acadia Repertory Theatre.

Tickets: FREE, RSVP required
Time/Date: Friday 11/6 at 7pm
Location: Acadia Repertory Theatre, 1154 Main Street, Mount Desert, ME 04660

About the Artists

Kevin Kling is a playwright, storyteller, and author hailed as a Minnesota state treasure. Named Minneapolis Story Laureate by Mayor R.T. Rybak in 2014, Kevin has been awarded an NEA Grant, a Whiting Award, a McKnight Fellowship, a Bush Fellowship, and two Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Awards. His plays have been produced at the Guthrie Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, the Sydney and Perth Arts Festivals, Spoleto USA, the Goodman, Children's Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, and off-Broadway at Westside Arts and Second Stage Theater, among many others. He's also known for his commentaries on NPR's All Things Considered, has written five books, and is a frequent performer at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN.

Steven Dietz is one of America's most widely produced contemporary playwrights. His forty-plus plays and adaptations have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres, as well as Off-Broadway and in twenty-five countries internationally, and American Theatre Magazine has repeatedly named him one of the "Twenty Most Produced Playwrights in America." He's received the American Theatre Critics Association's Steinberg New Play Citation for Bloomsday, the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award for both Fiction and Still Life with Iris, the PEN America Literary Award in Drama for Lonely Planet, and an Edgar® Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. He taught in the MFA playwriting and directing program at the University of Texas at Austin for twelve years and now serves as a Dramatists Guild "Traveling Master," teaching workshops in playwriting and storytelling across the country.

Rob Witmer is a composer and sound designer whose work has been heard at Seattle Opera (The Magic Flute, Tosca), A.C.T. (The Lehman Trilogy), Seattle Shakespeare Company (Twelfth Night), Village Theatre (The Color Purple), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Teatro ZinZanni. He previously collaborated with Kevin Kling on Best Summer Ever at Seattle Children's Theatre and Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and provided live music and sound design for the premiere of Kevin Kling: Unraveled at the Contemporary American Theater Festival.

Debra Acquavella has been a Production Stage Manager on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally for many years. On Broadway, she was Production Stage Manager for the year-long run of the Tony Award-winning Metamorphoses, stage manager of Master Harold… and the Boys, starring Danny Glover and Jane Eyre, The Musical directed by John Caird. Acquavella’s Off-Broadway credits include Falsettos at Playwrights Horizons directed by Lonnie Price, The Thing About Men at The Promenade Theatre and Metamorphosesat Second Stage. Regionally, Acquavella spent 15 seasons as Production Stage Manager of Actors Theatre of Louisville, stage managing close to 200 productions. These include dozens of premieres of new works in the Humana Festival of New American Plays, representing playwrights Tony Kushner, David Henry Hwang, Suzan-Lori Parks, Lee Blessing, Jane Martin, and Naomi Iizuka among many others.