Chronicler of the “American Problem”: An Interview with Kevin Willmott

Abstract

Kevin Willmott’s journey as an independent filmmaker is an improbable success story. He was born on the 31 August 1958 in Junction City, Kansas, a small city of a little more than 20,000 residents some ninety miles west of the university town of Lawrence and 125 miles from Kansas City, Missouri. He earned his BA in drama from Marymount College in nearby Salina, then an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University. Willmott is a multi-hyphenate—a writer, producer, director, and sometimes actor—who now is in his third decade as an independent moviemaker with major creative credits on fifteen films and counting.