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Keith Powell
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Powell was the Producing Artistic Director of Contemporary Stage Company, a summer theater in Wilmington, Delaware. He has produced/starred in/directed shows with Lynn Redgrave, Jasmine Guy, Keith David, Richard Easton, Duncan Sheik, and Sean Patrick Thomas. Producing credits include New York productions of The Mouse That Roared, Enter Pissarro, Indra & Agni Collide and a workshop of Kidding Jane with Ellen McLaughlin and William Charles Mitchell.
Powell was the resident director for Equalogy, a professional touring company promoting social change, for which he directed two plays by August Schulenberg, Four Hearts Changing and One Night.
His other directing credits include Dutchman, Quality of Silence, The Visit and Enter Pissarro. As an actor, Powell has appeared in numerous national network commercials.
His theatre credits include Romeo & Juliet (The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, District of Columbia ), Kidding Jane (Portland Stage Company), Macbeth (Pittsburgh Public Theater), As Bees in Honey Drown (Hangar Theater, Ithaca, New York), and The French (HB Playwrights Foundation, New York City) among others In the spring of 2007, while working as a recurring character on 30 Rock, he shot an American Broadcasting Company pilot called Judy"s Got A Gun.
lieutenant was subsequently not picked up for the Fall 2007 season, and Powell returned to 30 Rock, where he was promoted to a series regular.
In October 2008, Powell launched and starred in a self-funded web series called Keith Powell Directs a Play chronicling Powell’s foray into directing Uncle Vanya at a fictional repertory theatre group. In 2009, Powell was a guest commentator on Video Hits One"s 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s, and also played a Tuskegee Airman in the movie Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. In 2014, Powell began a recurring role on the television series About a Boy as Richard, Will"s workaholic friend/accountant/business manager.
Powell recurred on the final season of The Newsroom.
He also appeared in the feature film My Name Is David. In 2016 Powell appeared as a middle school talent show instructor in a music video for the Jukebox the Ghost song "Hollywood"
Powell was born in West Philadelphia and later moved to California.
Powell graduated from Saint Mark"s High School in Wilmington, Delaware. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at New York University"s Tisch School of the Arts in 2001.
In July 2012, Keith proposed to his girlfriend of three years, visual artist Jill Knox.
Powell splits his time between New York City and Los Los Angeles
