KEENAN TYLER OLIPHANT - Keenan Tyler Oliphant is a Theatre-maker and Director from Cape Town, South Africa. Keenan’s work is in the lineage of the theatre-making and storytelling traditions of Southern Africa. Selected directing credits include Nazareth Hassan’s Practice (Playwrights Horizons NYT critics pick Vulture and New Yorker Best Theatre of 2026) Heather Christian’s TERCE: A Practical Breviary (HERE Arts NYT critics pick Vulture, New Yorker and NYT best theatre of 2024), Will You Come With Me? (PlayCo), Jeesun Choi’s To the Ends of the Earth (JACK), Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play (Harvard TDM; Alliance Theatre Reading), Sam Grabiner’s People on Earth (Columbia University), Vivian Barnes’ Intro To (Ensemble Stage Theatre). Keenan is Associate Director for Hadestown (Broadway). Keenan has developed work with Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizon, The Vineyard Theatre, and more. Keenan is the 2025 Susan Stroman Directing Award recipient, an alumnus of the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship (2020-2021) and the Drama League Directing Fellowship (2021-2022). For Adi <3