Biography
Keira is a Chicago-based, Joseph Jefferson Award-nominated freelance director. She is an artistic associate at About Face Theatre, where she’s directed The Brightest Thing in the World, Bull in a China Shop, Significant Other, Bright Half Life, and A Kid Like Jake. Other recent favorite directing credits include: The Liar, The Moors, and A Doll’s House
(American Players Theatre), Mary’s Wedding
(Peninsula Players Theatre), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
(Milwaukee Chamber Theatre); The Last Match
(Writers Theatre); Top Girls
and hang
(Remy Bumppo); The Columnist
(American Blues Theatre); The How and the Why
(TimeLine Theatre), Charles Ives Take Me Home
(Strawdog), Broadsword
(Gift Theatre), and Fallow
(Steep Theatre). Keira received her MFA from DePaul University, is a Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, and is a member of SDC, the professional directors union.
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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