Kent Broadhurst | |
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| Born | February 4, 1940 |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, playwright, screenwriter, and painter |
Kent Broadhurst (born February 4, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter and painter.
He has appeared in a number of off-Broadway and regional theater productions.[1] Broadhurst has also acted in films, including The Verdict, Silkwood, and Silver Bullet, and in television productions including Babylon 5, Law & Order, War and Remembrance, and Kane and Abel. As a live performer, Broadhurst provided the on-stage narration in the role of the hypnotherapist in progressive metal band Dream Theater's New York City performance of Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. This performance was documented in the band's DVD Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York.
His credits as a playwright include They're Coming To Make It Brighter, Lemons, The Eye of the Beholder, and The Habitual Acceptance of the Near Enough, all first produced at the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.[2] He wrote the screenplay for the 2001 television film Wild Iris.
Broadhurst was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1962,[citation needed] and now lives in New York.