Michael McKeever

Plays include Daniel's Husband, Clark Gable Slept Here, 37 Postcards, Suite Surrender, and Melt, and have been produced at Florida Stage (Manalapan), Marin Theatre Company (Marin County), Hudson Stage Company (New York), Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis) and Caldwell Theatre Company (Boca Raton) among many others. His comedies have played in some of the most prestigious theaters in Europe, including Komödie Dresden (Dresden), Och-Teatr (Warsaw) and Theater in der Josefstadt, Kammerspiele (Vienna). He has been honored with an NEA Residency Grant (New Theatre, Miami) and has been a 3-time finalist for Humana Fest's nationally renowned Heideman Award. He is the recipient of seven Carbonell Awards; four Silver Palm Awards; and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. He is also an award...

Plays include Daniel's Husband, Clark Gable Slept Here, 37 Postcards, Suite Surrender, and Melt, and have been produced at Florida Stage (Manalapan), Marin Theatre Company (Marin County), Hudson Stage Company (New York), Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis) and Caldwell Theatre Company (Boca Raton) among many others. His comedies have played in some of the most prestigious theaters in Europe, including Komödie Dresden (Dresden), Och-Teatr (Warsaw) and Theater in der Josefstadt, Kammerspiele (Vienna). He has been honored with an NEA Residency Grant (New Theatre, Miami) and has been a 3-time finalist for Humana Fest's nationally renowned Heideman Award. He is the recipient of seven Carbonell Awards; four Silver Palm Awards; and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. He is also an award-winning actor and designer. He is a founding member of the award-winning theatre Zoetic Stage in Miami. He resides in South Florida and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Actors' Equity.

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Scripts

Melt (The Miamians)

by Michael McKeever

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
drama

As a new skyline forms over the city of Miami, histories, traditions and heritage are slowly being lost. And perhaps, new ones are being created. Three families - one Cuban, one African American and one Jewish - collide, intermingle and eventually blend as Melt unfolds its intricately woven tapestry of family, history and hope. A gay couple defy the odds to adopt a child, an activist fights to keep people of...

As a new skyline forms over the city of Miami, histories, traditions and heritage are slowly being lost. And perhaps, new ones are being created. Three families - one Cuban, one African American and one Jewish - collide, intermingle and eventually blend as Melt unfolds its intricately woven tapestry of family, history and hope. A gay couple defy the odds to adopt a child, an activist fights to keep people of color from being displaced, and two seniors struggle as the world they know begins to fall away.

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Daniel's Husband

by Michael McKeever

3
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

Mitchell Howard does not believe in gay marriage.
His partner Daniel Bixby does.

Life does what life does, as these two men learn
the consequences of their points of view.

Mitchell Howard does not believe in gay marriage.
His partner Daniel Bixby does.

Life does what life does, as these two men learn
the consequences of their points of view.

Clark Gable Slept Here

by Michael McKeever

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy

As one of the silver screen's brightest stars charms his way through the Golden Globe Awards, his staff tries to figure out what to do with the dead male prostitute on the bedroom floor of his hotel suite. A jet-black satire on what it means to be a "man" in the make-believe world of motion pictures, where nothing is ever what it seems and closets are used for so much more than hanging up

As one of the silver screen's brightest stars charms his way through the Golden Globe Awards, his staff tries to figure out what to do with the dead male prostitute on the bedroom floor of his hotel suite. A jet-black satire on what it means to be a "man" in the make-believe world of motion pictures, where nothing is ever what it seems and closets are used for so much more than hanging up