Keelie Sheridan

  • Assistant Professor

Keelie Sheridan (she/her) works as a performer, director, producer and educator. She is the Artistic Director of the Irish Classical Theatre Company in Buffalo, NY, where she programs, directs and performs in bold adaptations of classical works, and plays that connect with Ireland and its diaspora. Keelie has performed in new plays and physical/ dance theatre at venues including The Public Theatre, 3LD, JACK NY and Dixon Place. She competed in the 2009 Irish Dance World Championships with the Niall O’Leary School. As Co-Artistic Director of The Ume Group, a physical theatre ensemble originating in NYC, she directed by wing, fin, hoof or foot, a piece about animal and human migration (NYIT Award Nomination for Outstanding Movement/ Choreography). Keelie co-produced and directed several new works festivals, including The Lab at Grace & St. Paul's, UNFIX NYC, The Terry Schreiber New Works Initiative and The Schreiber Shorts, and devised/ directed immersive, site-specific installations and performance art pieces with Chashama NYC and Creative Time. Keelie holds a MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College and was selected as a US Ireland Alliance George J Mitchell Scholar, which enabled her to complete her MFA in Theatre Directing at Trinity College Dublin/ The Lir Academy. While in Ireland, Keelie worked on pieces of devised dance theatre, workshopped new plays with Irish writers and directed the European premiere of Grimly Handsome by Julia Jarcho. Keelie’s debut feature film, planet b234, screened internationally from 2020-2022, winning awards including Best Escapism Film, Best Sci-Fi Feature and Best Male Performance, and is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.