HARLIN C. KEARSLEY (Actor/ Writer /Director) A graduate of SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Acting. Mr. Kearsley's Off Broadway and regional theatre credits include Dutchman, Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, Macbeth, Richard III, The Exonerated, A Soldiers Play, and The Fantasticks.
Television credits include The Equalizer, Kevin Can F+++ Himself, New Amsterdam, Manifest, Godfather Of Harlem, The Blacklist, Bull, Luke Cage, Master Of None, 30 Rock, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU, and Criminal Intent. He's had recurring roles on One Life To Live, All My Children, the short-lived CBS series, Matt Waters as well as the original Law & Order. For five years, Mr. Kearsley hosted the PBS series The Internet In Action, which won an Emmy Award for Best Educational Program.
Film credits include Alex Strangelove, For The Love of The Game with Kevin Costner, Down To Earth with Chris Rock, and Mr. Poppers Penguins with Jim Carrey. Mr. Kearsley has also had principal roles in over 100 national on-camera commercials and voice-overs.
Actors Access: https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/HCKearsley
IMDbPro Profile: https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0444051?ref_=hm_nv_usr_profile
As a writer, his stage play, VOICES: THOSE WHO WORE THE SHOE, a multimedia production, based on the 1934-1941 former slave interviews conducted by the Federal Writers' Project, was adapted for radio and first aired on NPR in 2001. The program was nominated for a Peabody award and continues to air on various National Public Radio affiliates to this day. For over 10 years the stage version toured libraries, high schools, colleges, and theatres throughout the United States.
Mr. Kearsley currently produces and hosts a radio/classroom video series on YouTube called African American History Is AMERICAN History. https://www.youtube.com/@AAHIAHVideoSeriesChannel
AAHIAH's goal is to foster understanding, promote discussion and expand knowledge through stories of historical events, bios of unsung heroes, as well as timely and relevant news stories, which, hopefully, will paint a vivid picture of the effect segregation, discrimination, and bigotry had (and continue to have) on the lives of both Blacks AND Whites. Comparisons will be made between the many racially fractured periods of American history, and what's going on right now. Through our study of the past, we find, more than ever, that the struggle for equal rights FOR ALL must continue...in the present.