Keith Privett
Ancestry: Keith Privett
Birthplace: North Carolina
Revues: Touched by an Anglo (Director), Whole Lotta Shakira Goin’ On (Prod./Tech), My Big Fat Quinceañera (Prod./Tech) and ¡Veracruz! (Prod./Tech) and The Piñata Strikes Back, (Director)
Keith is a thirteen-year veteran of the Chicago improv community and was founding director of Salsation He has directed eight shows including Salsation’s hit Touched by an Anglo. He has also branched out, adapting the Anglo sketch “Cooking with Frida” into a short film. Keith studied for years under Del Close and other talents at ImprovOlympic, and other venues, taught at the Austin, Kansas City and Oberlin improv festivals, served as a consulting director to Extreme Improv of Charlotte, NC and worked behind the scenes of critically acclaimed shows by Del Close, solo performer Abby Schachner, and the Upright Citizens Brigade. Outside theater, he was a top forty finisher in last three Google U.S. Puzzle Contests.
Trivia: Keith’s name was borrowed for a newspaper reporter in an episode of Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s TV Show on Comedy Central.
Keith’s ancestors include four of the five “civilized” tribes of what later became the Southeastern U.S. (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Catawba, but not Seminole)
