Keenan Wesley Hart Jolliff, only minutes away from being named Madison, was born in Corvallis, Oregon, raised in Boulder, Colorado, and built a home (thank you Ikea) in New York City.
Keenan is a passionate, hard working, committed artist. He is an actor, a dancer, and a poet. He first learned how to walk in the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He found movement under the tutelage of Stephen Petronio, Barney O'Hanlon, and Annie B. Parsons. He found his voice in the hymns of Richard Armstrong and Jonathan Hart Makwaia, and he found action in the guidance of Terry Knickerbocker, Kevin Kuhlke, Jessica Hecht, Betsy Aidem and a slew of others.
A die hard Garden State fan, imaga-married to Hayley Williams, and continually attempting to glue the french language onto the inner lining of his cerebrum, he's spiked his hair since the age of 7 - if only to pursue dreams of being a Super Saiyan. He dreams now of one day being a legitimate rapper.
Music is his life blood. It stretches through the ins and outs of every pore and reminds him how to run. He can oft be found in the center of a mosh pit, or weeping in the fourth row of a Regina Spektor concert. Someday he would like to live in the Musée d'Orsay, if only to wake up to Monet's 'The Magpie' every morning.
He believes that chivalry is not dead and would tattoo a beautiful crest on his chest to somehow prove it, were it not for an irrational fear of not being cast in some new pilot written by Aaron Sorkin. He carries a copy of Red Light Winter and Over The Anvil We Stretch in his backpack because little reminders of how art can change you feel like the best things to bring with.
He's of the belief that someday Brooklyn will be so hip that they'll decide to revoke the ways of concrete and get back to basics. They'll construct a mountain out of discarded Beiber albums, and he'll be the first to free climb it.
In June of 2014 Stephanie Holbrook cast him as Jimmy in Marc Lucas' debut feature License Plates. Though still in production, the experience has been a dream, and serves to feed the flame for everything yet to come.
For now he's constantly attempting to breathe in patience, and find balance between the days like lightning, and the ones that are a bit more glacial - to value the view whether or not it's blue skies and sunsets - and keep on returning to that old Dangerous track - "Because nothing's worth the pain in your back, believe in that. The world can take control, but don't ever lose your heart. Because I know you better than that."
