Artist Keegan Shiner

As a writer and performer, Keegan uses satire, drama and pop culture as devices to create liminal performance sites. He is interested in how people experience things through the body, not just the mind. He has used this approach in combination with his comedic sensibilities to create dynamic installations and performance works that can both surprise and unnerve his crowds. His use of what Rebecca Krefting calls "Charged Humor," or humor that doesn't just tear down the problems of society, but also seeks to present solutions.

He has written two books. The first is a self-published novel called Lost in the Flood, which follows a murder mystery set ten years after a zombie apocalypse. The second is an artist-book called Not My President, which is a history book featuring all of the negative opinions and actions by U.S. Presidents. 

He is an experieced improviser and performer. He studied improvisational comedy in the Conservatory at the Second City Training Center and at iO Theater in Chicago, IL. His improv duo "Googly Eyes" with Eric Schwartz performed at the Chicago Improv Festival in 2014. He also produced and performed his own sketch show at the SCTC called Sidepiece. Each week, a new director and new co-star would join Keegan to write and perform an entirely new sketch show by Saturday night. Keegan also performed with long-form improvisational group "Fraggle," which specialized in monoscenes and competed in the Cornservatory Improv-Olympics.

He is also a music director (piano), playing for Buzzed Broadway, a fully improvised Broadway musical and drinking game, during the show's first year in Chicago. He also music directed two season of MINT at MCL Chicago. 

In 2016, Keegan and Ashley Stevenson co-wrote and produced "Bernie Sanders and the No  Good, Very Bad, Terrible Election," a musical comedy that premiered during the Premiere Premieres festival at MCL Chicago. It was directed by Katherine Siegel and music directed by Keegan. The show also had a limited run at the SCTC. 

As a director, Keegan had the privilege of working on a two-act improv-to-sketch revue called "In State of Emergency, Break Class." He also started a improv-video collective called Scriptless Films, which he used to explore and experiment with translating long-form improvisational structures taught for the stage in to films. The result was a show called "Scriptless Films" at the SCTC in which Keegan and a varying group of very talented improvisers would produce, perform and screen a new 25-45 minute film each week. 

Keegan currently resides in Boston. He has an MFA from SMFA @ Tufts University.