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Kent Kirkpatrick, a director and writer, worked in TV, films and theater before launching an academic career teaching in the graduate theater programs of the University of California--San Diego, and Oxford University among others. Before tenure set in, he migrated into the world of film writing, production and directing.
Credits include Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, an original play which he developed and directed; he wrote and directed a multi-lingual adaptation of The Odyssey; he developed, wrote, produced and directed a multi-media stage production Divining the Tapestry: Stories of Living and Dying Well; and for the New Mexico State Historian's Office researching, writing and directing The Legacy of Letters, a reading of important letters from 400 years of New Mexico history (this production included Governor Bill Richardson).
He wrote and directed the short film, Ride, which was awarded the best film award in the DigiFest Southwest Film Festival. He has written, produced and directed social marketing spots for the State of New Mexico.