Thomas Keith is the Literary Director for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival where he runs the annual seminar known as TWI, The Tennessee Williams Institute. Consulting Editor for New Directions Publishing, Keith has edited the Tennessee Williams titles for New Directions since 2002, including four volumes of previously unpublished or uncollected one-act plays and is the co-editor of The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin, published March 2018 by W.W. Norton.        

Keith has worked as an actor with directors and playwrights including Tom O’Horgan, Edward Cornell, Terry Gilliam, John Vacarro, Peter Hedges, Maria Irene Fornes, Jeff Weiss, Sharon Ott, Clifford Williams, Kathryn Long, Brian Mertes, and Ellen Stewart, and played principal roles in over forty commercials.

            A dramaturg for Sundance Institute Theater Lab and reader for the Yale Drama Prize under John Guare and Marsha Norman, Keith has taught acting and theater at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Ohio University, The Lee Strasberg Institute, and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School—currently in the BA International Performance Ensemble major at Pace University in New York City.

            Keith edited a collection of LGBTQ essays about New York City, Love Christopher Street (2012), and has written articles and chapters for American Theater Magazine, Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s, Tenn at One Hundred, The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams in Europe, Studies in Scottish Literature, and The Burns Chronicle, among others. Keith was the Roy Fellow in Scottish Studies at the University of South Carolina in 2004 and he has appeared as a Robert Burns scholar in the BBC documentaries, How “Auld Lang Syne” Took Over the World (2013) and Burns in the USA (2017).