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Keith Lee Grant (Born April 23, 1954) is a director, choreographer, actor, singer, and academic. He performed in the US premiere of the musical, RAGTIME and the Broadway productions, MARIE CHRISTINE and SHOW BOAT in addition to several Off-Broadway and Regional productions. He has won three AUDELCO awards for his directing/choreography and is the founding Artistic Director of the Harlem Repertory Theater.

Early life and education
Grant was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Hugh Grant (entrepreneur) and Dorothy Grant (registered nurse). He attended public schools on the South Side of Chicago (O’Keeffe Elementary School and South Shore High School). He began his performance career at the South Shore Young Mens’ Jewish Center where he played Indio in West Side Story with Mandy Patinkin who played Tony. He appeared as Toby in the opera, The Medium. After high school, he earned a B.F.A. In Theatre from The University of Utah (1974), A certificate from the American Conservatory Theatre’s Advanced Acting Program (1976), an M.F.A. from The Yale School of Drama (1982), and an M.A. from Penn State University in Dramatic Literature (1984).

Career
While performing in the resident acting company at the Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Grant founded the Oregon Dance Theatre for which he served as Artistic Coordinator from 1977 to 1979. After graduating from The Yale School of Drama in 1982 he played Troy Bannister on the daytime drama The Edge of Night and performed in the 1983 Ivoryton Playhouse season.

From 1983 to 1996 Grant taught in the Theatre Departments at Western Illinois University (1984-1986), The University 0f Nebraska (1986-1989), and Cornell University (1989-1996). He is currently a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Speech at The City College of New York in Harlem (2001-present).

From 1997 to 2001 Grant performed in the Broadway productions of, Show Boat, Marie Christine, and the United States premiere of the musical Ragtime at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles. On Off-Broadway he performed in The Bubbly Black Girl…. at Playwrights Horizons, Abie’s Island Rose at The Jewish Rep, and In Dahomey at The New Federal Theatre. He performed regionally in A Christmas Carol at Syracuse Stage, Much Ado About Nothing at The Indiana Rep, Love’s Labours Lost, Beef No Chicken and Timon of Athens at The Yale Rep, Anything Goes and Fences at the Connecticut Rep and several roles at The Pioneer Memorial Theatre and The Tempest, Tartuff, Mother Courage, The Little Foxes, Henry VI part 2, A Taste of Honey and King Lear at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

In addition to his stage work, Grant worked on the daytime dramas All My Children, As The World Turns, The Edge of Night, and Another World.

In 2004 Grant founded The Harlem Repertory Theatre (HRT) in Aaron Davis Hall (ADH) on the City College Of New York campus. The HRT ran for seven seasons at ADH, two seasons at The 133rd Street Arts Center and five seasons at the Tato Laviera Theatre in Taino Towers in East Harlem where it is currently housed. The HRT performs up to five productions in rep from February to June (Spring Season) and August to December (Fall Season). The current repertory includes, In The Heights, Jamaica, The Wizard Of Oz: Jazz Musical For All Ages, Sweet Charity, The Colored Museum and A Raisin In the Sun.

Profiles
City College of New York Profile https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/keith-grant