Robert Keith is a sophomore in the undergraduate program. He is a multidisciplinary artist raised in Akron, Ohio. His formal training began at Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts where he worked on countless performances and underwent training in Commedia D'elle Arte under Wendy Duke for several years. Continuing his performance training he spent four years in the Visual and Performing Arts Program at Firestone High School with a focus on Theatre and Choir in his last year. 

As an actor, Robert began professionally acting at age nine as Kai in The Snow Queen (Magical Theatre Company) Some highlights of his educational performances include, the title role in Macbeth, Mother Goose in Harlequin and the Golden Egg (Miller South), Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (Firestone High), and various roles in Eugene Ionesco's The Man with Bags (University of Akron).  Additionally, he has been seen as Henry in The Red Badge of Courage, Roger in The Lord of the Flies, and most recently Telemachus in The Odyssey (Magical Theatre Company).

Since his acceptance to New York University, Robert has participated in a number of Educational Theatre productions including Joe Salvatore's The Class Project and the title role in Woyzeck under the direction of Dr. Philip Taylor. Outside of the university Robert was recently seen in Ontological Hysteric's Incubator Series in the third installment of What is Wild?, and will be mounting an original work at Dixon Place for the spring 2010 season.