Chris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret have announced that Keith David will join Broadway diva and Tony Award-winner Lillias White's new show, A WOMAN ON LOVE, at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood tonight. There will be two performances only, on Mondays, June 3 and 10 at 8:30pm, with cocktail and dinner service beginning at 6:30pm. The June 10 show also marks the second anniversary of The Night After The Tonys, a tradition begun in 2012 by Ms. White and Upright Cabaret.
Award winning actor Keith David was born in Harlem, New York and raised in East Elmurst, Queens. With over 150 film, television and stage credits to his name, he continues to exemplify the character of Hollywood's greatest actors with a humble, un-trying ability to remain in demand.
As a child Keith discovered he wanted to act after playing the cowardly lion in his school's production of "The Wizard of Oz". He then later enrolled in Manhattan's High School of the Performing Arts and continued his studies in voice and theater at the prestigious Juilliard School of Drama. After graduation, Keith was hired as an understudy for the role of Tullus Aufidius in
William Shakespeare's "Coriolanus." In 1992 he received a Tony?Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his role in the classic Broadway play "Jelly's Last Jam".
Since then,
Keith David has had ongoing careers in acting, voiceover and music. In 2008 Keith earned an Emmy?Award for his narration of the "A Necessary War" segment of
Ken Burns' miniseries and epic documentary The War. Having earlier won an Emmy Award for his narration of another epic
Ken Burns documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of
Jack Johnson; Keith was also an Emmy nominee for narrating the filmmaker's miniseries Jazz.
David's extraordinary range of talent is evidenced by his body of feature films. His dozens of on-screen feature film roles include
Oliver Stone's Academy Award-winning Platoon;
Clint Eastwood's Bird; Peter and Bobby Farrelly's There's Something About Mary;
Michael Bay's Armageddon;
David Twohy's Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick;
Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream;
Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Tim Story's Barbershop;
Paul Haggis' Academy Award-winning Crash; and the title role in Rockmond Dunbar's upcoming Pastor Brown.
On television, David's numerous acting credits include guest arcs on ER and 7th Heaven; appearances on such shows as Law and Order and CSI; and LeVar Burton's telefilm The Tiger Woods Story, for which he was a Daytime Emmy Award nominee.
Noted for his deep, commanding voice, Keith has added another dimension to his career as a successful voice over artist. Internationally known as the voice behind Goliath from Gargoyles and the title character in the Spawn animated series, he also provided the voice for the character of Vhailor in the video game Planescape: Torment and the voice of The Arbiter for video game Halo 2. Other voiceover credits include the AandE cable series City Confidential and speaking for the U.S. Navy in television commercials; and the upcoming
Ron Clements and
John Musker animated feature The Princess and the Frog.
As a native New Yorker, Mr. David has extensive stage experience, from Shakespeare on stage in Central Park to Broadway with credits that also include
Sarah Pia Anderson's revival of Hedda Gabler and
Lloyd Richards' original Broadway staging of the late
August Wilson's Seven Guitars.
Also, an accomplished singer/songwriter with his own band, Keith has tapped into some of today's top producers and chart topping performers to join him on his album debut, scheduled for release in 2009. The album will feature both a traditional jazz format and his personalized brand of a jazz and hip-hop hybrid.
