keith paul medelis

Keith is a Brooklyn-based journalist, theater maker, and professor of communications and media studies. Their work has taken them to the center of crypto mines in the northern edge of Iceland to public speaking classrooms in Shanghai to digital detox retreats in the Berkshires and a backyard in coastal Maine. With an MFA in directing from Brooklyn College, their work has been seen off-Broadway with the Upstream Artists’ Collective and regionally with The New Theater Project, committed to new and devised work in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Keith’s nonfiction work explores community connections and the myths we tell ourselves to hold together in a frenetic world. Their forthcoming book, We Didn’t Start with Time: premonitions from the edge of the world is due out of a procrastinating mind in 2025 and their most recent theater pieces explore verbatim public domain texts that have something to say about the way we live now—an adaption of Cornelia Atwood Pratt’s under the title attain to the world where the real things are is in the works. Yes, it’s science fiction. No, it’s not about the gadgets, boys. It’s about the lessons.