Will Keenan

Will Keenan is a producer, actor, director, writer, consultant and stuntman who attended New York University while majoring in theater and studying psychology, philosophy and dance. Keenan has acted in and worked on producing more than 20 independent films made in New York City, Hollywood and Bollywood which have been screened worldwide. He started his career in underground and cult movies, performing lead roles in Tromeo and Juliet and Love God (Good Machine now Focus Features). Some of his starring and producing credits include "Politics of Love", "The Ghastly Love of Johnny X", "Chop", "Terror Firmer", "Margarita Happy Hour", "The Love Machine", "Hoofboy", "OMC", "Hisss" and "Trick" among others. In 2004 Keenan played the role of "Billy Tripley" in a popular episode of Law and Order: SVU rumored to be about Michael Jackson as reported by NBC's Access Hollywood and the New York Post's Page Six and others. Keenan produced three songs and two music videos for the "Hisss" soundtrack in an east-west collaboration, bringing together artist Dave Kushner of American super-group Velvet Revolver with Indian actress/singer/lyricist Shruti Haasan, Julian Lennon with Mallika Sherawat and Panjabi MC with Filmfare Award-winning Indian singer/performer Shweta Pandit. Official Bollywood Soundtrack Charts charted "I Got That Poison" Performed by Panjabi MC and Shweta Pandit in the Top Ten from Oct 24 through Nov, 5 2010. In 2009 Keenan created the Indo-American production company and consultancy partnership Nuclear Mango and sold his stake in the company in 2011. Keenan was an invited participant in the 2000 Sundance Institute Film Labs and won a Best Actor award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival in 2002. OMC, co-directed by Keenan, has garnered positive reviews for Keenan's acting and stunt-work and some film web sites have called him a contemporary Buster Keaton. Keenan worked under the company name Hoverground in New York City, and, until 2011, under the company name Nuclear Mango in Los Angeles. In 1998 Keenan produced and programmed a 10-day arts exchange between New York City and Philadelphia named PhillyHoverground at locations throughout Philadelphia including International House and the Shubert Theater. The festival program consisted of art, theatre, dance and film screenings including the city's first public theatrical screenings of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "Cannibal The Musical" and Harmony Korine's "Gummo". During his teenage years, Keenan was a recipient of the Hugh O'Brien Youth Foundation Award and the Presidential Classroom Award. Keenan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.