BIOGRAPHY

 

Keith has been a writer, teacher and actor for over 20 years, internationally.

 

In his mission to empower and champion talent, he has also been an artistic director, producer, agent for actors, singers, directors, composers and writers.

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Keith began his training at The Walnut Hill School of the Arts in the US, focusing on classical music and theatre. Invited to attend Juilliard as well as Guildhall, he decided to return to where he’d always felt at home – spending the next two years training in voice at The Guildhall School of Music in London's Barbican. Before finishing his degree, he was accepted on to Mary Hammond’s brand new (then 2 year) ’Singing Theatre’ course at The Royal Academy of Music.

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Keith’s professional work has been an international mix of producing, directing, acting, singing, writing, and teaching (voice and acting). Most notably: Mordred in Camelot three times with the likes of Robert Goulet and Debby Boone; The Crucible with Gareth Thomas; Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie for Damien Cruden with Honor Blackman; God of Carnage UK Tour with Elizabeth McGovern and in Alan Bennett’s Single Spies for Paul Kerryson at the Curve. This led to various productions in London, NYC, regional and Number 1 Tours. He began writing and opened a theatre company in 2012, then called Noël and Company, in NYC. He was commissioned by Lincoln Center for The Noël Coward Festival: Noël Coward: The Women of His World (writer and director) starring Dana Ivey, Alan Cox, Dee Hoty, Mary Ellen Ashley, and Cady Huffman and Star Quality starring Bebe Neuwirth (director).

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Because of a Covid related condition, Keith took 5 years out of his performing career and focused instead on opening his renamed theatre company, The Salon, based at London's The Other Palace as well as a creative agency championing directors, artists, writers, and composers - from new graduates to Tony, Grammy and Emmy winners. His mission was to help give opportunities to new talent as well as to do what he could to further the careers of his established clients.

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In 2025, he couldn't deny his own creativity anymore and decided to return to his passions as a writer and actor. At 51, he hopes the adage, "it's never too late," has much truth behind it.​

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As a Writer: Noël Coward: The Women of His World with Dana Ivey, Alan Cox, Cady Huffman and Dee Hoty commissioned by The Noël Coward Foundation at Lincoln Center. Frankly Sinatra at The RSC Summerhouse in Stratford. Lorelei (the unfinished Novello operetta); Anyone Can Whistle liner notes for the new Maria Friedman recording; Ibsen’s Ghosts (adaptation); Ionesco’s Rhinoceros (adaptation); contributing writer at iSing Magazine

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As Artistic Director of The Salon, London: Entertaining Mr. Sloane with Harriet Thorpe; The Einstein Letter with Sara Kestelman, his adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts with Alan Cox and Wormholes starring Fantastic Beasts and Call the Midewife’s Victoria Yeates all at The Other Palace, London.

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As Artistic Director of Noël and Company, NYC: The Vortex with Edward Hibbert/ Suzanne Bertish; Design For Living; The Mousetrap directed by Larry Fuller starring Carole Shelley and Jill Paice; The Cherry Orchard with Suzanne Bertish; After the Dance; Liliom with Erin Davie; Ghosts with Michael Urie; What Every Woman Knows with Carole Shelley; Star Quality with Bebe Neuwirth at Lincoln Center.

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Most recently his one woman play, Irrelevant, opened the 2023 season with a three week limited run at The West End’s Seven Dials Playhouse, starring Olivier nominee Debbie Chazen. "The disreputable atmosphere of Hollywood casting agents, well before ‘me too’ was ever even thought about, comes across perfectly in Merrill’s taut and clever writing. Highly recommended." - John Cutler.com