Kevin Maher is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer, whose work has been seen on HBO, AMC, CNN, Comedy Central, VH1, TV One, FEARNet, and Nickelodeon. His short films have been shown everywhere from MOMA to Troma, with screenings outside of Sundance and Cannes.
Working with Kanbar Entertainment, Kevin co-authored seven treatments for animated feature films, developed two animated television series and co-wrote a sequel/Holiday special to the hit animated movie Hoodwinked!
Kevin created three original web-series including AMC’s The Sci Fi Department (short-listed for a Webby) and Comedy Central/Atom’s Old People News.
On stage Kevin created the multi-media shows Video Vaudeville and Kevin Geeks Out, a monthly confabulation of vintage film clips, guest experts, interactive games and curiosities. Over the course of the run, Kevin “geeked out” about Bigfoot, Robots, KISS, Video Games, Dummy Deaths, Alien Encounters and Batman. (For that show he wrote 100 haiku about Batman.) The show was a favorite of critics, from The New York Times to Scientific American.
Before that, he performed solo comedies including the off-Broadway show “Lone Drifter.” Before that, he was one-third of the sketch comedy trio TV Head.
Journalists have compared Kevin to Ernie Kovacs and Jonathan Winters, but his highest praise came from Tiger Beat who called him “funny!”
Kevin Maher’s Writer-Producer Reel from Kevin Maher on Vimeo.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Kevin hosts the Paley Center’s Oscar Viewing Party. (Sunday 2/27)
Kevin screens his short film Puppet Rodeo at the PUNCH Puppet Film Slam (Thursday 3/10)
Kevin co-hosts MEET THE LADY: DREAM SEQUENCES with Tom Blunt. (Friday 3/25)
Kevin emcees MOVIEOKE (that’s movie karaoke) at 92Y Tribeca. (Saturday 3/26)
INDEX OF COOL STUFF:
Kevin Geeks Out:
Kevin Geeks Out About Shark Cinema
Kevin Geeks Out About Visions of the Future
Kevin Geeks Out About Monkeys
Writing on Film/Pop Culture:
Shock Waves: or How I Learned to Overcome Zombie Fatigue
Werewolf Obituary (Paul Naschy)
AMC’s The Sci Fi Dept:
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Christopher Sears
Kevin,
Since you made yourself the topic of conversation, please let me vent some pent-up fanboy admiration. I'm a big fan of your Sci Fi Dept videos. I thought your best work was in Why Not Tron Fest?, The Toxic Avenger (Rock Musical), and Post Apocalyptic Living Guide. Even though there are no more videos on the way, keep up the good work.
Kevin Maher
Thanks for your note, Christopher. I added the TOXIC AVENGER musical, because I gotta include the fan favorites!
There's some good stuff coming soon.