EDWARD KEITH BAKER (Director) trained under Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse, under John Houseman at Julliard and music studies at The University of Freiburg.  Privately, he has studied with Lehman Engel (BH1 Musical Theatre Workshop), Michael Langham (former head of the acting department at Julliard and Artistic Director, Stratford Shakespeare Festival). He has been Artistic Director for the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival and the Florida Repertory Theatres.  In 2001 Keith was invited by the US State Department to be a representative of the American Theatre to Armenia.  He was so impressed with the theatrical tradition he found, he invited the renowned director of the Yerevan State Drama Theatre, Armen Khandikian, to make his American debut at BRT with his production of Forget Herostratus.   Keith most recently directed Around the World in 80 Days  and The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, having last Season directed The Fantasticks and the World Premiere of I Married Wyatt Earp.  Other productions he has directed at BRT in recent years include Olympus On My Mind, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Tete-A-Tete, The Skin of Our Teeth and The Woman In Black among his more than 25 productions for BRT including Chicago (nominated for six Barrymore Awards). His production of The Balkan Women won the 1998 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play, and he was nominated as Outstanding Director of a Play for The Dresser at the 2002 Barrymore Awards.   Keith has been nominated eleven times for the prestigious Carbonell Awards, for which he was twice the recipient for Best Actor.  On stage, he was seen last Season at BRT as Robert in Proof, and George Hay in Moon Over Buffalo.  Other BRT roles in recent years include Claudius in Hamlet, Herostratus in Forget Herostratus, Fredrik in A Little Night Music, Teddy Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, and James Tyrone Jr. in A Moon for the Misbegotten.  Elsewhere, recently, he took over the role of Jeeves in the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn musical By Jeeves at the Goodspeed Opera House and appeared on TV in two episodes of Stella for Comedy Central.  Most recently he appeared on the BRT stage as Robert in Proof. 

 

BLAIR WALSLEBEN (Production Stage Manager)