Trivia

Three-time finalist in the USA Songwriting Contest (2001, 2002, 2004) in the Gospel category.

Kirk and his wife, Joni Bovill, eloped in Negril, Jamaica on May 4, 1995.

A former marketing executive in high technology and a published writer in the field of optoelectronics.

He was a staff member on five national championship track teams at the University of Nebraska and Louisiana State University. He worked with several athletes that competed in the Olympics.

Hot-air ballooned over the Serengeti Plains of Africa.

Recruited by small colleges to play football and run track out of high school.

His mother, Judy Bovill, is an accomplished artist that spent twenty years teaching in Colombia before retiring back in the United States.

HIs father, Ron Bovill, a teacher and coach in Nebraska, performed as Mark Twain in Wells Fargo commercials in the 1970s.

Avid bike rider.

His grandfather, Glen Bovill, was a first generation Irish American and decorated World War II veteran. A member of the famed 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Glen would be the first in his unit to be wounded in action in North Africa. Many times their unit was attached to General Patton's command throughout the war. Of his 552 days of active combat, grandmother Neva Bovill wrote him, every single day.

First Broadway play attended was Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf" in the summer of 1978. Prior to his senior year of high school. Kirk's parents let him leave Aurora, NE (pop. 3500) and stay in Manhattan for the summer with his uncle.

Wrote his first song at the age of ten "Rain" and his first play at the age of thirteen "Count Alucard".

First trip to Disneyland was in the summer of 1968.

PADI certified SCUBA diver.

Appears in the final season of Better Call Saul, "Hit and Run" (episode #604) along with real wife, Joni Bovill as Mr and Mrs. Ryman.