Keith Myers

Since directing last year’s hugely popular farce Boeing Boeing here in Vienna, Keith relaunched Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile for West End producer Bill Kenwright and directed the classic Whitehall farce Dry Rot for Ian Fricker Ltd., both of which toured the UK. He then directed a Christmas pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk.

Keith has been Artistic Director of several theatrical managements and theatres and has more than a hundred productions to his credit. UK touring shows include the farces Anyone For Breakfast by Derek Benfield, and Anybody For Murder by Brian Clemens and Dennis Spooner, and the thriller Murder by Misadventure by Edward Taylor. He has also directed repertory seasons of plays all over the UK and favourite productions include; Deadly Nightcap by Francis Durbridge, The Business of Murder by Richard Harris, Martin Sherman’s Bent, Lee Hall’s Cooking With Elvis, Time and Time Again by Alan Aykbourn, Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett, Brian Clemens‘ Inside Job, The Opposite Sex, a farce by David Tristram, Frederick Knott’s classic thriller Dial M For Murder and Mike Leigh’s famous comedy Abigail’s Party.

His work has taken him abroad many times; he directed Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor in Luxembourg, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web which toured Israel and a touring production of Bag Lady in Germany. He also produced series of Les Misérables concerts in the UK, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Pakistan.

Keith’s London productions include; Carlo Goldoni’s early Commedia farce The Venetian Twins, Carlo Collodi’s classic, Pinocchio, Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, East by Steven Berkoff, Jean Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos, Ibsen’s The Lady From the Sea, and Vincent (about Van Gogh) written by Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy.

He also regularly teaches all over Europe; last year he ran a Directing Workshop in The Hague and in July he will be teaching on the International Theatre Summer School in Belgium. He also directs and teaches in several London drama schools.

Keith has a busy parallel career as an actor, this Christmas he played pantomime dame and last year he was in a long UK tour of Noel Coward’s comedy Star Quality playing fading matinee idol Gerald Wentworth. In 2010 he appeared at Vienna’s English Theatre playing the hapless Vic Johnson in the farce Funny Money by Ray Cooney and before that the outrageous Reverend Dicky Sainsbury in Michael Frayn’s Donkeys’ Years.

He is delighted to return to beautiful Wien and hopes you enjoy Key For Two.