Bio

Keith Paul Medelis is a theatre director, producer, designer, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder and Artistic Director of The New Theatre Project based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and currently the Creative Director of Upstream Artists’ Collective in Brooklyn. Keith has developed several world premieres and devised performances with TNTP, Performance Network, The Ringwald, Bookshop Workshops, Variations Theater Company, and the University of Michigan.

As a teaching artist he has worked with Brooklyn College, Ann Arbor’s Pioneer High School, The Play Group Theatre, and the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Producing work has included New Works Brooklyn featuring new work from José Rivera, Anne Washburn, and Mac Wellman, and serving as festival emissary for Todd Shalom and Niegel Smith’s Elastic City.

He is currently a writer for Theasy.com and the Marketing Associate for The Play Group Theatre where is also the director of the Teen Conservatory program. MFA: Brooklyn College under Tom Bullard and Mary B. Robinson. upstreamartistscollective.org

KEITH PAUL MEDELIS

Keith is Creative Director of Upstream Artists’ Collective and former Artistic Director of The New Theatre Project in Ann Arbor, MI. Stage and company management credits include Off-Broadway: Turn Me Loose; New York: LaMaMa for Superhero Clubhouse, Bushwick Starr, The Flea Theater, and Elastic City. Director of several new works regionally for The New Theatre Project, Performance Network, University of Michigan, The Ringwald, and in New York for Dixon Place, Variations Theater Company, and Bookshop Workshops. Upcoming directing collaboration with the International Wow House. Teaching artist with Waterwell, Manhattan Youth, and Brooklyn College. MFA: Brooklyn College. www.upstreamartistscollective.org