Kevin Fisher Writer/Activist

About Kevin Fisher

Kevin Fisher's plays have been performed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Magic Theatre, Naked Angels, the Adobe, Dixon Place, Here and Westbeth Theatre. His screenplay “Under My Skin” won the Independent Feature Project screenwriting award, and his screenplay America First was recently shortlisted for an Austin Film Conference screenwriting award. His monologues have been performed in alt/comedy clubs, published by Smith & Kraus and The New York Times and produced by Urban Stages as the one man show Legal Alien. His short stories have been published by L Magazine, Caveat Lector, Packingtown Review and Underwood Press. Kevin’s play The Monkey Room (Magic Theatre) developed under a Sloan Foundation grant was produced in San Francisco in the Spring of 2008.Kevin Fisher is also an editor and writer for the Cornwall Chronicle.

Play Productions

PLAY PRODUCTIONS

Houston We Have a Problem, one act. Dixon Place Theater, NYC 1995; Alice’s Fourth Floor. May, NYC.

Chokehold, one act play. West End Theater, Alice’s Fourth Floor. 1995. NYC

Hell’s Kitchen Sink comedy group. Ensemble Studio Theatre, Winter 1996 & Winter 1997.

Master of the Obvious, Westbeth Theatre. One man show. 1997

Legal Alien, One man show. Urban Stages. 1998.

Back In Five, full length play. Ensemble Studio Theatre 1999

Monkey Room, full length play. Magic Theatre Production. San Francisco April 2008

Spaniel, full length play. Second Round Finalist, Austin Film Festival

playwriting competition. 2024

Screenplays

America First. Screenplay. Second Round Finalist, Austin Film Festival

Screenwriting competition. 2024

Wind Blows. Screenplay. Semi-finalist in Chesterfield Film Company Competition, 1994.

Under My Skin. Screenplay. 1996. First Prize. Herbert Biegel Screenplay Award. Independent Feature Project. 1996; Sundance Screenwriting Lab Semi-Finalist, 1996.

Fiction - Short Stories

White Pages, L Magazine 2010

Now, Now Caveat Lector 2023

The Floater Packingtown Review 2024

Round Young Virgin Underwood Press 2024

Bloodless Pine Hills Review (coming in 2025)

Academic Publications

Harmon, Thomas M; Fisher, Kevin A; McGlynn, Margaret G; Stover, John; Warren, Mitchell J; Teng, Yu; Näveke, Arne; Exploring the potential health impact and cost-effectiveness of AIDS vaccine within a comprehensive HIV/AIDS response in low-and middle-income countries, PloS one,11, 2016

Fisher, Kevin; Voronin, Yegor; Jefferys, Richard; ","Therapeutic HIV vaccines: prior setbacks, current advances, and future prospects", Vaccine, 2014

Fisher, KA; Alexander, A; Feuer, C; Harmon, T; Harrison, P; Lee, W; Warren, M; HIV Vaccine Research and Development (R&D) Funding 2009: Stability in a Global Recession?, AIDS RESEARCH AND HUMAN RETROVIRUSES ,2010,

Fisher, KA; Weiner, J; Farley, J; Nesheim, S; Palumbo, P; Bulteys, M; ",Total lymphocyte count as an age-dependent surrogate for CD4 lymphocyte count in HIV-infected children 12 years of age and younger, XV International Aids Conference, 2004

Fisher, Kevin A; ",Constitutionality of the Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Over-the-Counter Drug Labeling under the Commercial Free Speech Doctrine ,Food Drug Cosm. 1985

Activism

Kevin is a trained epidemiologist who worked in HIV prevention advocacy for two decades. Kevin served as Policy Director at Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention (www.avac.org) where he identified and develop new policy initiatives to accelerate research and development of new HIV prevention technologies (vaccines, microbicides, pre-exposure prophylaxis and others) by working with researchers, funders, civil society and industry. His work with AVAC was part of the first grassroots advocacy to develop, license and roll out pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention (PrEP). He served as a Member of NIH’s AIDS Vaccine Research Sub-Committee 2006-2010; Member of the Steering Committee of the Global Heath Technologies Coalition; Chair of Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) Research Working Group 2008-2022, Member of the Convening Group of the FAPP; and as a board member of AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition .

Kevin is currently working with 350Brooklyn where he serves on the Steering Committee, 350Brooklyn is a volunteer-driven group that mobilizes people to take effective local action to address the climate crisis

Kevin Fisher