Keelay Gipson

Keelay Gipson is an award-winning playwright and multi-disciplinary artist including work as an actor, filmmaker and director. As an actor he has performed in World Premiere musicals such as Quanah (Pace New Musicals), with music by the Grammy Award-winning Larry Gatlin of The Gatlin Brothers and Darling (Pace New Musicals) by composer-lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver.

He has directed productions of Red Light Winter and See What I Wanna See (Studio 501) in New York as well as new plays and concert pieces including Sign "O" The Times (Duplex Cabaret Theater) and Blood (Manhattan Repertory Theater). Regionally he has directed Star-Spangled Girl and Boeing-Boeing at The Mar-Va Theater in Maryland. He has assisted on projects such as The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adley Gurguis and White’s Lies starring Betty Buckley (New World Stages).

His work as a playwright has been seen at The Wild Project, Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory, Bowery Poetry Club, The Theater at Alvin Ailey, Pace University, the University of Houston, 133rd Street Arts Center and HERE Arts Center in NYC. He helped adapt Aimee Bender's New York Times Best-selling novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake into a theater piece with a group of writers which has gone on to be performed in NYC as well as in Chicago. He has been featured in The Advocate, Next Magazine and TimeOut New York for his play N/F.