| Intro | Canadian playwright and actor |
| Is |
Writer Playwright Actor Television actor |
| From |
Canada |
| Type |
Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 24 November 1974, Lytton, Canada |
| Age: | 45 years |
| Star sign | Sagittarius |
Kevin Loring (born November 24, 1974) is a Canadian playwright and actor. As a playwright, he won the Governor General’s Award for English-language drama, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script, and was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, for Where the Blood Mixes in 2009.
As an actor, his credits include roles in the television series Da Vinci’s Inquest, Arctic Air and Health Nutz, and the film Pathfinder, as well as stage roles including Michel Tremblay’s Saint Carmen of the Main, George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Edmund in an all-First Nations production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear at the National Arts Centre in 2012.
A Nlaka’pamux from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, he studied acting at Langara College.
On June 15, 2017, Loring was announced as the first artistic director for Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.