THEATER RESUME:
Keith Alan Cooper : SAG
Experience:
1988-1992 COMEDY OPTION
Wrote, performed and directed live shows
and in-house videos for Corporations. Traveled with troupe of seven
performing live shows including: rollouts, dinner shows and corporate videos.
The Comedy Option wrote and performed all corporate functions.
Clients include several Fortune 500 companies.
Partial listing: Price-Waterhouse,
Ameritech, Ilinois Bell, First Chicago, St. Paul Federal, Chicago Dental
Association, Boston Mass Mutual ...
1988-1995 THE ILLEGITIMATE PLAYERS
Co-wrote and performed
several successful revues and full length plays in Chicago.
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Near North Side Story Roxy (Revue/Performer)
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Out on a Whim Roxy (Revue)
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The Illegitimate Players Live Roxy,
Catch a Rising Star (Revue)
The Players embarked on a string of
well received parodies of mostly American classic authors including:
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The Glass Mendacity (Play Tennessee
Williams parody) Victory Gardens Theater
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All My Spite (One Act Arthur Miller)
The Body Politic
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Of Grapes and Nuts (Play John Steinbeck)
Victory Gardens Theater / Halsted Theater
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A Christmas Twist (Play Charles Dickens)
Victory Gardens Theater
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Pandora Skulnk Wont Come Out of the House
(Play-
Original) Victory Gardens Theater
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Mystery Date(Play- Original) Live Bait
Theater
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Cheese Louise(Play- Original) The New
Baliwick Theater
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The Day the Arts Stood Still (Revue)
Engagement for Luna Park Café, Los Angeles
Produced by Banshee
and Illegitimate Players
TELEVISION/FILM:
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The Illegitimate Player On TV 26
week Group W Cable project. Nominated for Chicago Emmy.
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TCI of Illinois recorded and broadcasts all
the parody plays above to an audience of 1.5 million subscribers.
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Illinois State Lottery Commercial
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Madison State Bank Commercial
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Appearances on Jenny Jones, WGN Morning
News, Q101, NPR, WTTW Pilot project.
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Butterscotch and Chocolate Lead role
in independent film. (Straight to video)
Awards: Joseph Jefferson Award Original
writing / Joseph Jefferson Nomination Best Supporting
Actor / ACE Award for Cable Excellence / WIC Women in Cable Award (2)
