Kevin V. Smith is a queer, feminist theatre artist.

At the forefront of the avant-garde theater scene in Chicago for more than a decade, Kevin's queer feminist deconstructionist approach to directing combines the surreal and the expressionistic to create daring and visually arresting abstract stagings. Kevin's work has been called "stylized and imaginative" (Chicago Tribune), "in search of a new paradigm for what is considered acceptable theatre in America" (Chicago Critic), "startling and haunting" (Chicago Reader), and "as extraordinary in vision and delivery as it is provocative and captivating" (Chicago Stage Review). Kevin's 2020 production of Juliet at Theatre Y was featured in HowlRound for its Spanish-language supertitles and chorus of mothers and infants on stage. It was highly recommended by WTTW as, "a work of both real life and pure poetry."

Kevin is a four-time Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award-nominated actor, was named “Best Actor of the Year” by Chicago Stage Review, starred Off-Broadway in the notorious production of Jean Genet’s The Maids X 2, and has acted under Tony Award-winning directors Mary Zimmerman and David Cromer. A rigorous and intense physical performer whose work has garnered comparisons to Buster Keaton and Willem Dafoe, Kevin has trained extensively in Viewpoints and Grotowski techniques both domestically and abroad.

In 2019, together with longtime collaborator Daiva Bhandari, Kevin founded the Chicago-based production company Blue in the Right Way Productions, LLC.