Biography

Canadian Keir Cutler is the playwright/performer of several award-winning solo plays and has performed as an actor in many television and film projects. He has appeared in scenes with Ben Stiller, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Eddie Murphy.

His twelve self-penned solo theatre plays include the award-winning, "Teaching Shakespeare: A Parody" (French translation, "Fou de Shakespeare"), "Teaching Detroit," a monologue adaptation of Mark Twain's "Is Shakespeare Dead?," "Teaching Witchcraft," "Lunatic Van Beethoven," "Teaching As You Like It," "Teaching the Fringe," "Rant Demon," "Shakespeare Crackpot," "Joan of Arc Ascending" and the award-winning, "Magnificence." He is also the author of the two-character comedy, "Teaching Hamlet," the science fiction play, "2056," and the monologue, "Civilized" on the Indian Residential Schools of Canada.

He has performed his monologues across Canada, in New York City, London, UK and four of his solo shows are broadcast on television by Bravo!/Canada. Solo performing career highlights include appearing at the lecture hall of Shakespeare's Globe in London, UK in 2016 before a sold-out audience which included Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Mark Rylance, (video available on YouTube, title "Shakespeare Crackpot" Live at Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK.") and appearing at the Mark Twain Home and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, in 2019.

Keir Cutler has been called

"a masterful entertainer," (Winnipeg Free Press) "a marvel to watch," (Toronto Sun) "formidably delightful," (Off-Off Broadway Review, New York) "blisteringly funny," (Hour, Montreal) "a real theatrical gift," (Ottawa Citizen) "a phenomenal performer," (winnipegonstage.com) "supremely witty," (Edmonton Journal) "a penetrating presence," (Backstage, New York) "Consistently intelligent," (CBC, Edmonton) "one of solo theatre's superstars." (Montreal Gazette)

Keir has an MA and PhD in theatre from Wayne State University in Detroit, a playwriting diploma from the National Theatre School of Canada and has a BA from McGill University.

In the late 1970s, Keir played football at McGill University. He once scored three touchdowns in a single game against Concordia University. He was drafted by the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in 1979, but did not make the team.

Keir is married and lives in Canada.
- IMDb mini biography by: Keir Cutler