Keenan is truly a Renaissance man in addition to playwriting, Keenan is also an actor, director, and producer of original work. While attending he was a part of the Black Student Alliance, an organization that had a duty to represent and address the needs of the African American student body and to culturally enrich the campus as a whole through programs and lectures. A graduate of Frostburg State University, he received a Bachelor’s in Theater Arts with a concentration in acting. A self-published poet, by 18 Keenan had performed up and down the East Coast winning various SLAM poetry contests. There he began his journey in the underground SLAM poetry scene of Washington, D.C., at the age of 15. The youngest of two, Keenan relocated with his mother and sister to southern Maryland. Keenan Scott II is a native New Yorker born and raised in Queens, New York. He then caught the eye of Ann Reinking at an open audition and made his Broadway debut in Fosse, dancing featured specialties such as “From the Edge,” “Rich Man’s Frug,” and “Take Off with Us.” His other Broadway credits include Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Legally Blonde, Taboo, Saturday Night Fever and the national touring companies of Camelot, Kiss Me, Kate, My Fair Lady, Memphis, and Chicago. Some of his favorite roles include Darren Lemming in Take Me Out, Gaveston in Edward II, Paul in Kiss Me, Kate, Ken in Smokey Joe’s Café, and Core Company Member of Quick Silver Theater Company. From there, his regional career began with roles in On the Twentieth Century at the Goodspeed Opera House and Mame at Paper Mill Playhouse. in Theatre from Kennesaw State University all while performing with The Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, The Atlanta Opera, and Georgia Ballet. Jody Reynard attended the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts outside of Atlanta, GA and graduated with a dance major. He teaches throughout the U.S., Europe, and Canada and is currently on the faculty of the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Forrest is a recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship for top regional actors, and enjoys working on new plays and musicals-most recently at Sundance, New York Stage & Film, Arena Stage, and Arden Theatre Company. Iden Payne Award), Avenue X (11th Hour Theatre Co./Barrymore Award), Seven Guitars (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Wild With Happy (Baltimore Center Stage), Romeo and Juliet (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival), Othello (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre), Julius Caesar (Lantern Theater Company) and most recently Cabaret (Connecticut Repertory Theatre). Regional: The Scottsboro Boys (Philadelphia Theatre Company/Barrymore Award), Red Velvet (Lantern Theater Co./Barrymore Award nomination), The America Play (Zach Scott Theatre/B. Off-Broadway: The Scottsboro Boys (VineyardTheatre), Cabin in the Sky (City Center Encores!), James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire (New Federal Theatre). Praise God from whom all blessings flow.īroadway/WestEnd: The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Award nomination). Thank you to Syracuse Stage and Baltimore Center Stage and the TOACM team. He directed The Man in Room 306 at Luna Stage, and both Easy Money and A Salute to August Wilson and Religion at the Billie Holiday Theatre. Television: HBO’s Oz, All My Children, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Third Watch, and Lights Out. As a writer, he penned the plays Augusta Brownand Electric Lady, and the Jimi Hendrix screenplay. Film: Peeples opposite Kerry Washington, Musical Chairs, Tio Papi, Shaft 2000, The Out of Towners, It Runs in the Family, The Narrows, and Romeo and Juliette in Harlem. Regional:Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Two Trains Running, A Comedy of Errors, and Richard III The Old Globe in Macbeth Arena Stage, Denver Center, Goodman, and Alley Theatre in Satchmo at the Waldorf Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Center Stage, Folger Theatre, Long Wharf, and the Goodman Theatre in the world premiere of Seven Guitars opposite Viola Davis. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Beckett, Negro Ensemble Company, Abingdon Theatre Company, New Federal Theatre, 127th Repertory Ensemble, and Circle Rep. Broadway: American Son, Jitney, Stickfly, and Seven Guitars.
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