ABOUT

Biography

Keira is a Jeff Award-nominated director, as well as a casting director and teacher based in Chicago. Keira's recent work has been on new plays and reimagined classics, often focused on strong female narratives and underdog stories. Keira is an Artistic Associate with About Face Theatre, a frequent guest director at DePaul, as well as Roosevelt University, and a proud member of SDC, the professional directors union.

Select Reviews, and a partial list of Directing, and Reading & Workshop credits can be viewed below.
Education
MFA, Directing
The Theatre School, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

BFA, Theater Studies
Boston University, Boston, MA

Affiliations
SDC
Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab
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"Keira Fromm’s production is a seat-gripping, often purposefully frustrating experience that speaks profoundly both to ripped-from-the-headlines real experiences as well as to the abstract relationship citizens have with their government. The fact that someone else's dystopian fantasy happens to mirror real life in the United States is downright chilling."
"Fromm has become a specialist in small intimate shows that thrust characters into intense emotional confrontation. One of her strengths is a lack of fuss, her ability to cull the extraneous. And of course, to cast exceptionally well."

Chicago Tribune
"Deftly cast and ably directed by Keira Fromm, with greater intimacy than the original Broadway staging, and laudably more emphasis on the private costs paid not just by those who choose to live their lives in public, but by those who love them."

Chicago Tribune
Directing
The Last Match*
By Anna Ziegler
Writers Theatre
Top Girls
By Caryl Churchill
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
A Doll’s House
By Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Simon Stephens
American Players Theater
Dada Woof Papa Hot
By Peter Parnell
About Face Theatre
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley 
by Gunderson/Melcon
Theatre Squared
Bull in a China Shop*
by Bryna Turner
About Face Theatre
hang**
by debbie tucker green
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
Significant Other*
by Joshua Harmon
About Face Theatre / Theater Wit
A Funny Thing Happened…*
by Halley Feiffer
Route 66 Theatre
Bright Half Life*
by Tanya Barfield
About Face Theatre
The Columnist*
by David Auburn
American Blues Theatre
A Splintered Soul*
by Alan Brooks
ARLA Productions and
Chicago Commercial Collective
Victory***
by Ike Holter
The Inconvenience
How the World Began* 
by Catherine Trieschmann
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Bent
by Martin Sherman
The Other Theatre Company
A Kid Like Jake*
by Daniel Pearle
About Face Theatre
Luce*
by J.C Lee
Next Theatre Company
Charles Ives Take Me Home*
by Jessica Dickey
Strawdog Theatre Company
The How and the Why*
by Sarah Treem
TimeLine Theatre Company
Broadsword*
by Marco Ramirez
The Gift Theatre Company
Fallow*
by Kenneth Lin
Steep Theatre Company
Enfrascada*
by Tanya Saracho
16th Street Theater
Seven Lies of an Unbeliever***
by J.T Rogers
The Gift Theatre Company
Confluence***
by Jack Miggins
Collaboraction
Lobby Hero+
by Kenneth Lonergan
Redtwist Theatre
The Ring***
by Greg Hardigan
Collaboraction
Pop Tart & Another Kind***
by Tanya Saracho
American Theater Company
The Moon, the Lake, 
and the Fire***
by C. Hawecki
American Theater Company
Readings & Workshops
The Last Match 
by Anna Ziegler
Writers Theatre
Eleanor Absolute 
by Hannah Verdon
Greenhouse Theater Center
I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard 
by Halley Feiffer
Route 66 Theatre Company
Secret Life of a 
Local Band 
by Schmuckler, Davis& Lawrence Mercury Theater
When We Were Young 
& Unafraid 
by Sarah Treem
Route 66 Theatre Company
Disfarmer 
by Werner Trieschmann
Theatre Squared
CQ/CX 
by Gabe McKinley
TimeLine Theatre Company
A Twist of Water 
by Caitlin Parrish
Red Tape Theatre
Lucinda's Bed 
by Mia McCullough
Chicago Dramatists
The Passion of Claire 
by Cheryl Royce
The Lark Theater
Childhood 
by Thornton Wilder
Lincoln Center 
Directors Lab
* Chicago Premiere
** U.S Premiere
*** World Premiere
+ Nomination for Joseph Jefferson award
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