[1] Dreyer is also a dance lighting reconstructor for the works of Gerald Arpino, Moses Pendleton and Kurt Jooss.
When Dreyer was about to enter the tenth grade, his father joined the drama faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
[1][5] "From Nikolais, Dreyer learned the importance of detail and acquired a knack for striking a human chord.
[13] Dreyer's lighting design credits for the Joffrey include I/DNA,[14] Ruth Ricore Per Due,[15] and Partita for RC.
[1][23][24] Dreyer's lighting designs have been reviewed in The New York Times on seven separate occasions for his work with The Joffrey, MOMIX, and others since 1987.
In 2000, Anna Kisselgoff, dance reviewer for The New York Times called his work with the Joffrey Ballet "brilliant".
[27] Jowitt, in her ballet review of a Frederick Ashton Celebration in 2004, described how Dreyer's lighting enhanced the costumes: "In their gleaming unitards and elvish caps, molded by Kevin Dreyer's lights, the dancing figures inhabit a frieze in process, dreamily making and unmaking it in a timeless golden void.
In addition to teaching theatre courses, he has been the Resident Lighting Designer for the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival since its inception in 2000 and was the Producing Artistic Director in 2011.