Tim Deaton-Conway fixes his wig before a dress rehearsal for ‘Vigil’ at The Forum at the Hal Rogers Center in Hazard, Kentucky, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. According to Deaton-Conway, his character, Kemp, reminds him and other members of that cast of the person he used to be, saying it was an interesting reflective opportunity he had been talking with his therapist about leading up to the show. “The big psychological crazy man that Kemp was in that story, that was me in real life,” Deaton-Conway said.