Kevin is the son of current toddler teacher Aedín Artigue and former MIR teacher Michael Artigue. He attended MIR in the Primary years, then left to attend McKinley Elementary for the second grade. He finished the rest of his elementary schooling at Kimberly, then went on to Cope Middle School. During middle school, he got involved in community theater, spending seven summer seasons with the Redlands Theater Festival.

After graduating from Redlands High School, Kevin attended UC San Diego and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Theater, with an emphasis in acting and playwriting. He was honored with the Rita Bronowski Award upon graduation, given to an especially promising undergraduate. He worked as a professional actor in San Diego and as a teaching artist with the La Jolla Playhouse and San Diego Repertory Theater. There, he wrote and produced his second play, "Read-Only-Memory," in a small theater in downtown San Diego. He spent the next five years in Los Angeles, working and struggling as an actor and being active in the Los Angeles experimental theater scene.

Kevin now makes his home in New Haven, Connecticut and writes exclusively for film and stage. He is in the process of applying to several graduate schools to further his studies in playwriting.

"No, in actuality, I couldn't have asked for two more supportive parents, and they remain that way to this day. I think they have instilled in me-and I'll let them credit Maria Montessori for this if they want to-an amazing sense of possibility. In other words, if I followed my bliss, I could do and achieve whatever I wanted to in this world, if I just promised to put it away when I was finished, and roll up the mat, neatly. Not into a square or any other pointy shape, but into a perfect tube.

"My parents have been wonderful guides for me, and I like to think that despite public schools' repeated attempts to turn me into a robot, I hold onto the Montessori ethic at my core. That is part of my instinctual response to life now that I am an adult, because I am still learning every day that the world is full of possibility, and you really do get to choose, and that it is about how you choose, and how we choose to live together. (And, if you don't want to put it away, because you've had a long day or you just don't feel like it, you can actually hire someone to clean it up for you, for something like $50 an hour. I have the number if you need it.)

So I'll take this moment from my desk in New Haven to write a huge thank you to my Montessori teachers and my Montessori parents, for showing me the way but never making me go there. And the whole no-grades thing really rocks. Thirty years of A-plus-plus-pluses! Congrats MIR!"