Coined one of the best-looking comic actors ever (by his mom), Robert Keller has appeared on TV, film, and stage in both the U.S. and Canada. In 2009, Robert appeared in A.R. Gurney’s Children at the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival alongside Judith Light (Ugly Betty). Earlier that year, Robert starred as Phillip, the uptight celebrity stylist, in the award-winning Green Room, an independent TV pilot, which was an official selection of the 2009 New York Television Festival.
In 2007, Robert was selected from a crowd of hundreds of comedians from across Canada to appear as one of eight finalists on The Second City’s Next Comedy Legend, a co-production of CBC Television and the Second City. He was also the subject of his own episode of Can’t Get A Date, the VH-1/Logo series that takes a biting, humorous look at the pitfalls of dating in New York. In addition, he starred in the short film Stacked Deck, a top 10 finalist in the New York round of the international short film competition The 48 Hour Film Project. Robert has also performed stand-up comedy across North America, including performances at many of New York City’s top clubs, such as Caroline’s, Comix, Stand Up New York, and the Gotham Comedy Club, as well as at L.A.’s Comedy Store and at clubs in the U.K. and Canada. His comedy has been featured on CBC Radio One and Radio Canada’s Première Chaîne. Robert's dry, acerbic wit shines a light on the ridiculousness of celebrity culture, and his self-deprecating style highlights his own numerous foibles (including the fact that he owns every Celine Dion CD ever made). Being resourceful, he has put his obsession with Celine Dion to good use by writing jokes about her and performing as her (in full drag) whenever he gets the chance, including at a private event in New York City for a major women's magazine. As a writer, Robert has had the privilege of creating comedic material for the current Prime Minster of Canada (aka President Obama's little buddy, Stephen). Before following his dream of performing, Robert earned a degree from the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal, Canada and used it to convince a fancy New York law firm to give him an office so he could pretend to work on “legal memoranda” and other important-sounding lawyer stuff. (Mostly, though, he was just surfing the internet.) |
