Kevin Swanstrom
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About Kevin Swanstrom
Kevin Swanstrom is a Core News writer for Screen Rant with an emphasis on TV and film. He graduated from Chapman University in 2013 with a degree in Theatre Arts, and now is based out of Los Angeles. In addition to covering pop culture news, he writes for the screen and the stage. His play Sh*tty Awful Everything was nominated for Best Comedy at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, and his scripts have made him a two-time semi-finalist for the NYC Short Screenplay Competition and a quarter finalist for the ScreenCraft Horror Competition. He's been an avid film lover since he started memorizing the names of actors on the backs of VHS tapes at his local Blockbuster as a child, and he counts Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, John Carpenter’s The Thing, and Boogie Nights among his favorite films. If you want to check out his work, he wrote and stars in a web series called Tricycles about the struggles of being a perpetual third wheel in other people’s relationships, which can be watched at triyclesshow.com.
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