American actor (1955-2022). He was born in Westbury, New York, and moved to Westport, Connecticut when he was 11. Conroy's father was an alcoholic who attempted suicide while Kevin was a teenager, and his brother struggled for much of his life with schizophrenia. Kevin lived with a friend during his last year in high school. He moved to New York City in 1973 and earned a scholarship to attend the drama division at Juilliard. He studied under John Houseman and roomed with Robin Williams. (And he could have roomed with Christopher Reeve, but the rent was too high.)

After graduating from Juilliard in 1978, Conroy toured with The Acting Company, a professional theater group founded by Houseman, and later went on a national tour of Ira Levin's comic thriller "Deathtrap." Conroy and his co-star Brian Bedford disliked each other and actually got into a fight on-stage during their opening night performance at the Kennedy Center. During the

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    I fear when did I leave
    my poetry my life dide bleede
    from thee my dear my self my near
    my far my star my gaze my lark
    I laugh I lie I list I cry
    
        I think of thoughts that are my own
        from future self too twilight zone,
        
            a ladder prime to stars so far a fractal farce
            and back from mars here we are friends afar,
            to here through winds and winds
            of door and moore and

i want to share with you
something of myself
but you are so delicate
and i don't know my own strength

an earthquake, a flood
your teeth fall out
bones crushed into powder
the sky sings every day
of the great mystery of truth

the breath is a refilling
the lifetime is a refilling