Keith Cromwell
Since coming to Red Mountain Theatre Company in 2003, Executive Director Keith Cromwell's RMTC directing and choreography credits to date include Once on This Island, Gypsy, Annie, Footloose, and Grease. In addition, Keith is involved in numerous Cabaret productions each year which have included the acclaimed Smokey Joe's Cafe.
Keith has been active in enhancing a collaborative atmosphere in the arts community in Birmingham. In 2004, RMTC participated in a historic collaboration with the Alabama Symphony and Alabama Ballet in presenting Carousel (which led to a continued partnership with the Alabama Symphony in the October 2005 performance of Annie Get Your Gun and the September 2006 concert version of The Music Man). Keith also participates in vital organizations like the Cultural Alliance Review Board, Leadership Birmingham and the Cultural Arts Committee for the Birmingham City Schools.
With Keith's support, RMTC has implemented educational arts curriculums in the Birmingham school district through its Education and Outreach program. In conjunction with Partners in Education and the Birmingham City Schools, RMTC members now provide workshops and performances to local school groups throughout the year.
Prior to his coming to Birmingham, Keith's career includes being the Associate Director and Choreographer for the Off-Broadway show Pete-N-Keely which featured Phyllis Diller, Jo Anne Worley and Charo. Keith has also served as Show Supervisor and Associate Choreographer for the Off-Broadway production of Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly!, which won the Drama Desk, Obie, Outer Critics Circle and American Theatre Wing awards. He then went on to recreate the show in Los Angeles, where he won the Backstage West Garland Award and was nominated for Ovation and Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Choreography. His production of Cabaret at Trinity University won seven Alamo Arts Council Awards including Best Musical. Other critically acclaimed director roles include Damn Yankees, performed at the historic 13,000 seat Muny, America's oldest and largest outdoor theatre. In addition to these remarkable accomplishments, Keith has performed as a cast member in countless well-known productions like the First Broadway National Tours Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, starring Donny Osmond and Sam Harris, La Cage Aux Folles, the off-Broadway hit Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee-Doo! and the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. He is also included in the original cast recordings of Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly! and Whoop-Dee-Doo!
Outside of acting, Keith has been involved in numerous philanthropic activities, such as assisting the Actors' Equity Association in raising a record amount of money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the nation's leading industry-based, non-profit AIDS fundraising and grants organization.