Keith Lee Grant

 Educational Philosophy
My primary goal as a teacher of theatre arts is to prepare my students for the challenges that they will undoubtedly encounter when they move on to graduate programs or into professional careers. A comprehensive curriculum (voice, movement, acting technique, theatre history and text analysis etc.) is paramount to the achievement of this goal. Consequently, I work to expose my students to a diverse and challenging range of exercises, projects, texts and written assignments that will prepare them for their professional careers as actors, directors, producers, designers or stage technicians etc.

 M.F.A. The Yale Drama School
M.A. The Pennsylvania State University
B.F.A. The University of Utah
Certificate: The American Conservatory Theater's Actor Training Program

Other Training and Education
Alvin Ailey Dance Center
Society of Fight Directors and Choreographers, Utah
Shakespeare Festival
Repertory Dance Theater
Summer Workshop 1974
STEPS Dance Center
Theater for a New Audience,
Summer Shakespeare Workshop 2002

 Body Movement
Musical Theatre Workshop
Black Theatre USA part I

 “An Acting Experience”
The Actor's Image : Movement Training For Stage and Screen by Jean Sabatine
Backstage Books, 1995

“Introduction”
Jazz Dance Theatre Technique DVD by Jean Sabatine, Directed by Keith Lee Grant, Produced by the University of Connecticut - Storrs
Released by Insight Media, January 2010

Grant Vs. Cornell
http://www.grantvscornell.com/

 AWARDS AND GRANTS

Yale University, Leon Burkes Walker Scholarship
The American Conservatory Theatre, Performance Scholarship
Luther College, Academic Scholarship
2010 AUDELCO Award for Best Director of a Musical
2010 AUDELCO Award for Best Choreographer of a Musical
2010 AUDELCO Nomination for Outstanding Musical Production
2009 AUDELCO Nomination for Best Director of a Musical
2009 AUDELCO Nomination for Best Choreography
2009 AUDELCO Nomination for Musical Production of the Year
2009 Yip Harburg Foundation Grant
2004 Impact Ensemble Theatre's Dream-keeper Award


RECORDINGS

ABIE'S IRISH ROSE: Original Cast Album (With Heather MacRae, Steven Rosen and Carla Woods)

MARIE CHRISTINE: Original Cast Album (With Audra MacDonald, Mary Testa, Vivian Reed and Darius DeHass

REUNION: Original Cast Album (with Don Burroughs, Donna Lynne Champlin, Jonathan Hadley and Harriet Foy)

Directing/Choreography

Theatre For The New City
FLAHOOLEY

Hamilton, Bermuda
DREAMGIRLS

The Cincinnati Opera
MARGARET GARNER (Selected Scenes)

The Germantown Performing Arts Center (Memphis, TN)
THE PROMISE (Opera)

TheaterworksUsa
THE COLOR OF JUSTICE (2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 NATIONAL TOUR)
PLAY TO WIN (2006 NATIONAL TOUR)
ROSA PARKS (2008 Workshop)

The Harlem Repertory Theater

AIN’T MISBEHAVIN
AS YOU LIKE IT
FINIAN’S RAINBOW
TAMBOURINES TO GLORY
THE WIZ
VODU
HAIR
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
CABARET
DREAMGIRLS
BYE BYE BIRDIE
THE WIZ (2009 Revival)
FLAHOOLEY

The Connecticut Rep
SOUTH PACIFIC
CARNIVAL
PIPPIN (Choreographer)

The Nebraska Repertory Theatre
SHE LOVES ME
PIPPIN

The Yale Cabaret
2x2x4

Dartmouth College
BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE

NYU Tisch School of the Arts
SHORT EYES
DUTCHMAN

NYU HotInk New Play Reading Festival
ALKI
REMEMBERANCE
SWEET MAMA STRINGBEAN

Cornell University
WEST SIDE STORY
AS YOU LIKE IT
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
CABARET
THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD

The Stella Adler Conservatory
TAMBOURINES TO GLORY

Ashland Shakespeare Festival (Black Swan Project)
MY FAVORITE THINGS
THE APPLE TREE

Summer Music Theatre
MAME
BYE BYE BIRDIE

The University of Nebraska
SWEENEY TODD
PIPPIN
THE DEVILS
PICNIC
BROADWAY MELODIES
LA CABARET

Western Illinois University
COWBOY MOUTH
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
SWEET CHARITY
AS YOU LIKE IT
ADVENTURES TO NEVER NEVER LAND
CABARET
 
Acting

Jazz Dance Theater (Guest Artist)
Television
All My Children
Another World
One Life to Live
The Edge of Night
Jazz (Voice-over, Ken Burns Series)
The Jay Leno Show