Keith is a graduate in drama, has acted and directed for over fifty years, began playwriting in 1988 and writing mystery novels in 2003. He recently worked on the film, Life Fine Tuned, in the featured role of Doc. The film is scheduled for release in the fall of 2011.

Along the way, to pay the bills while following his passion for writing, Keith held a variety of positions: network broadcasting production at NBC radio and television, radio account executive, and copywriter, production director, and artistic director for an advertising agency. He also owned an advertising agency in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Virginia.

In January 1979, because he had no time to be in or direct plays, yet his passion for them continued to be a strong part of his life, Keith convinced a former NBC compatriot, who was then the General Manager of WEAM “Big Band Radio,” to let him be the station’s theatre reviewer as Keith Montgomery. Five years later when the station was sold and the format changed, Keith continued covering theater as a freelancer for three different magazines – writing commentaries and interviewing stars, directors, and playwrights of productions opening in D.C.

In 1988, Keith turned to studying the art of playwriting, and in 1989 returned to his first love – theatre – and became an active participant as an actor, director, and writer. He has been a member of the Playwrights Forum of D.C. since 1990 and served on the Alexandria Performing Arts Association Board of Directors from 1997 to 2010.

His plays, which are mostly one act, have been produced in and around D.C., and one was performed in New York City. Throughout the years, he has occasionally worked as an actor and directed a production or two. Recently, Keith rewrote his thirteen-year-old, two-act play, Road Rage, to fit the locale of North Carolina and then directed its production.

In 2002, after retiring from business, Keith turned his writing efforts to fiction, as well as improving his golf game – finding neither to be an easy task. By the end of 2007, he had written and self-published two novels, Death of an Intern and The Hill People, a mystery series about D.C. newspaper reporter, Laura Wolfe. The Hill People was entered into and won finalist awards in “Politics” and “Multicultural Fiction” at the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The second editions of both books are now being published by Boutique of Quality Books Publishing Company.

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