Keith R. Huff
Artist, Educator, and Researcher
Artist, Educator, and Researcher
Keith is a Vancouver, B.C.-based artist, educator, and researcher whose work uses verbatim performance to bridge the gap between past and present through dialogic, participatory theatrical experiences. He came to Vancouver by way of New York, California, and Arizona. Keith is a PhD student in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, a Lincoln City Fellow with the Sparanza Foundation, creative consultant with the NYU Verbatim Performance Lab, and a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America.
Part story-telling, part lecture, part dialogue, this one-person arts-based investigation interacts with artifacts related to the death of Virginia Woolf.
A new musical based on the classic myth with music and lyrics by Jenn Grinels, book by Keith R. Huff, with Development and Direction by Amy Cordileone.
A verbatim performance event drawn from excerpts of the U.S. Supreme Court's oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara.
Arts-Based Research & Reserach-Based Theatre
For the past 10 years, Keith has worked as an artistic creator and collaborator with New York University's (NYU) Verbatim Performance Lab, creating theatrical experiences that disrupt political, social, and cultural narratives.
Praxis and Pedagogy
Keith is an educator with over 20 years' experience in the field. He began as a High School English Language Arts and Theatre teacher in Arizona, where he taught for seven years before moving to New York City to pursue his Masters Degree at NYU. Post-graduation, he has worked as an arts administrator, an adjunct at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and spent the last 9 years teaching in the Program in Educational Theatre at the NYU Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Development.