Jeffrey James Keyes
Jeffrey James Keyes is a current member of Pipeline Theatre Company's PlayLab and the founder of The Convening. He co-authored New York Times Best Seller Killer Chef with James Patterson. He is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA Playwriting Program. Theater credits include: The End of Days (SoHo Playhouse/New York International Fringe Festival), The Biltmore Academy (Chicago's Prologue...
Jeffrey James Keyes is a current member of Pipeline Theatre Company's PlayLab and the founder of The Convening. He co-authored New York Times Best Seller Killer Chef with James Patterson. He is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA Playwriting Program. Theater credits include: The End of Days (SoHo Playhouse/New York International Fringe Festival), The Biltmore Academy (Chicago's Prologue Theatre Company), Imaginary Friends (Samuel French OOB Festival & Prologue Theatre Company), I'm From Driftwood (Project Y/Access Theater), Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations (Bushwick Starr), Dance Dance Arden (3LD), Cell Beget Cell (Old Vic Theater, London), Room 407 (59E59), Josh Groban Fanclub (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Into the Shallow End (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Moonshine on the Rocks (78th Street Theater Project), and Williamsburg (Manhattan Rep). He was the story producer on the travel series Out in GayCities with Lexus and additionally worked as a producer on the Sundance series, "Revealing", featuring Joe Zee and MTV's "True Life".
His short films 181 and Uniform have been featured in over thirty festivals and he recently won the 2019 Artists' Patron Fund's Gold Award for Cream City, a television pilot he is co-writing with Matt W. Cody. He is additionally the scriptwriter for "Digital Arrest", a virtual reality project that won the top award at the 2019 NYC Media Lab. In 2020 he was awarded the inaugural PEN America L'Engle/Rahman Prize for Mentorship.