Keaton Wooden

Keaton Wooden is an Emmy and Rhodes nominated writer, composer, director, and social impact producer. As screenwriter he won the AFM Pitch Conference, was a finalist for the NexTV Pilot Competition, as well as the London Film awards. He is also an award-winning composer, and with songwriting partner Coyote Joe Stevens helped write "The Civility of Albert Cashier" as well as the Appalachian ghost story "Hills on Fire." Their work has been produced by Tony-winning Producers and Directors, and has been hailed as "Musical genius at work." As Producer - Wooden specializes in social impact projects for theater and film. He most recently helped produced the Austin Film Festival Top Jury & Audience Award winning social justice film, "The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain" as well as the Emmy-nominated Deaf documentary "Vibrations" and the Prism Award-winning autism film "NightLights" which sold to Lifetime. He was also producer on the world-premiere stage adaptation of Irvine Welsh's acclaimed novel/film "Trainspotting" and proudly produced the Off-Broadway hit "Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche," as well as "To Master the Art," at the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago. A Rhodes Scholar nominee, Wooden studied modern literature and Critical Theory at Oxford, England, and has presented research on the humanities and the entertainment industry at University of Oxford England, Kingston University, IFP Chicago, Wheatstone Academy, and the Screen Actors Guild.