Thomas Keith

An actor, editor, and producer, Thomas Keith was the Creative Producer for the Drama League-nominated 2013 revival of Tennessee Williams’ rarely produced comedy The Mutilated. Keith has worked as an actor at The Public, La MaMa E.T.C, Milwaukee Rep, Great Lakes Theater Festival, INTAR, Champlain Shakespeare Festival, P.S. 122, and Naked Angels, with directors and playwrights including Tom O’Horgan, Edward Cornell, Terry Gilliam, John Vaccaro, Peter Hedges, Maria Irene Fornes, Jeff Weiss, Sharon Ott, Clifford Williams, Kathryn Long, and Ellen Stewart, and played principal roles in over forty commercials. He has served as dramaturge for The Mabou Mines, The Sundance Institute Theater Lab, La MaMa E.T.C., and Pace University. Along with Jane Young, he is the co-author of four plays, including The Histories of Gladys. Keith has taught theater and acting at Ohio University, The Lee Strasberg Institute, and Pace University, and serves as an advisor to the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. A Consulting Editor for New Directions Publishing, he has edited over a sixteen volumes by Tennessee Williams including three collections of previously unpublished one-acts—Mister Paradise & Other One-Act Plays, The Traveling Companion & Other Plays, and The Magic Tower & Other One-Act Plays—as well as Williams’ last full-length play, A House Not Meant to Stand, for which he wrote the introduction. Keith recently edited a collection of LGBT essays, Love Christopher Street: Reflections of New York City (2012), and has written articles and chapters for American Theater Magazine, Tenn at One Hundred, The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams Review, Studies in Scottish Literature, Electric Scotland, The Drouth, Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century, The Burns Chronicle, Tennessee Williams and Europe, and The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia, among others. Along with Peggy L. Fox he is co-editing The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin for publication by W.W. Norton in 2015.