Kevin Scott Crawford (25 April 1970 - 2 December 2013) was a scholar of William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton and a founding member of the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival.

He received his BA and MA from Florida Atlantic University and his Ph.D. in Renaissance drama from the University of Alabama's Hudson Strode Program (2005), with Gary Taylor as his dissertation director.

[1] He was appointed assistant professor of English at Reinhardt University, in Waleska, Georgia in 2007.

[5] He has published in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England,[6] Shakespeare Bulletin, and Shakespeare Yearbook, and was one of the editors for the online edition of Middleton's collected works, published by Oxford UP.

[8][9][10] Crawford died, unexpectedly, in December 2013;[11] services were held at Reinhardt and in Stratford-upon-Avon; the Dr. Kevin Crawford Memorial Scholarship Fund was established at Reinhardt.