Testimonials

                      Your book is phenomenal. It gets deep right in the Introduction. 

                                                               -Dr. Laurel T. Hughes-Massey, Issues of Conscience: Journal on                                                                            the Science and Sale of Life

                      I finished your book last night. It was heartfelt, open, honest and so well done. I 

                      identify with so much of it... all the ups and downs as a performer and the nagging 

                      self doubts we can fight. I thought your book was WONDERFUL!

                                                                -Carol Cope Chatfield - Professional singer, teacher and coach

                      I knew you had talent...but this book is even more impressive.

                                                                 -Dr. R. Bruce Moss,- Masters of Music, Piano, The Julliard School,                                                                            Doctor of Education, Music, The University of North Carolina                                                                          at Greensboro

                      It's a fantastic autobiography of Ken's life. Funny, heartwarming, sad at times, honest                            and open. If you are looking for something to add to your reading list, check this one                              out, I don't think you'll regret it.

                                                                    -John Wells- Structural Engineer

                      "Bravo" Very entertaining and uplifting!  

                                                                   - Linda Oliver

                       "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Father of compassion and                           the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those                           in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. -2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV"                          I think that says it all about your book. Very cerebral start."                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                      -Gary Hayden- Mechanical and Industrial                                                                                                                  Engineer

Just finished your wonderful book. It was an overall delightful and enjoyable read (made even more so because I knew the author). You definitely succeeded in your goal. It was honest, poignant, sincere, revealing, reflective, provocative, humorous, and insightful. You out did yourself, my friend! It didn’t just take good writing to accomplish this, but great courage and reflection to bare your soul.

Bravo! -

I am certain that I am the first guy in Germany to have purchased a North Carolina School of the Arts author’s book. And man was I delightfully shocked that this was truly a sagacious narrative of a spiritual journey that had very little to do with simply advising its readers on how to perform mime on stage. This work is a performance-mentoring-script on the art of achieving a meaningful life of worship and faith and one’s daring to commit themselves to God and Community, wholeheartedly. And it is, indeed, a trustworthy read.

In “Body, Mime and Soul”, not only does Ken take the alumni on a journey back down memory lane; yet, also, he offers the non-(University of)NCSA-ers with a superbly palpable kit (model) as to how to fuel oneself for arriving toward a plane of awareness that preserves and nurtures family and friendships.

Inclusive of the perplexing cultural ire distilled into our current reliance on the frames of social
media, it is rare for an American author to discover such a natural, astute philosophical tone as
Mr. Alcorn finds himself underpinning. Meaning, through his own “unique” experiences in life,
through the trial and error of taking salubrious risks, if risks can be viewed healthy, he has
evidenced a wisdom welcomed, and using his own words, “the integrity in which [his] thoughts
are directed [do pleasantly] determine the subsequent quality of the result” accomplished,
therein, that are as rewarding to any acolytes as one might want to find themselves addressing
afresh. As a reader, you find yourself connecting to the psychological and philosophical acumen
of every passage Ken Alcorn introduces. You don’t quote Dostoyevsky or mention Plato—as he
does on page 63—without knowingly understanding your words, your thoughts, have been
shaped and modified by you, yourself, having been a brilliant student of civilization’s greatest
thinkers. This is reason, alone, for foreseeable readers to trust the arrival of this author.

Mr. Alcorn’s powerfully memorable plot unfolds as the mime’s silence transcends to
pages that posit a confidence of action that manifests itself into a sublime tour de force of
personalities, words, and subplots.

I’ll be going back to this work often. Thank you Ken Alcorn! Beautiful memoir!

-Frederick Smith Canada- Writer, Book Critic Berlin, Germany

What a journey!
There are many, many sections of the book that grabbed me, but I travel back to your introduction. How honest and vulnerable—just like you and your work.
You write with an open heart. You present the journey from kid, to student, to actor, apprentice, to mime, (and all the sidelines ...piano player, bartender, salesman office worker) to husband, to church goer, and to dad, (and what a great dad) with simplicity and truth. Your subtitle, WHEN ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, rings truthfully throughout the book.
Oh, sure I loved the part of NCSA, and was flattered by your generosity, but you also note the many, many teachers that played a part in your transition into becoming the artist, man, father and husband you became.
I was touched.
I will share your book with someone, yet to be identified, but will appear at the right time.

Martin Rader- Director, Acting Coach, longtime faculty member of The School of Drama at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston- Salem, N.C.