Keenon Hooks

Casting Director / Resident Artist

Keenon Hooks

(805) 928-7731 ext. 4121

PCPA (since 2007): Ensemble/Benny us, In the Heights; Sticks Pig/Ensemble, Shrek; Swing, Sound of Music; Light of the World, Godspell; Ensemble, Ragtime; Ensemble, Hot Mikado; Ensemble, White Christmas; Ensemble, Les Miserables; Mrs. Taylor/Roy/Reverend Hightower, Bat Boy; Ensemble, The Music Man; Russ Cochran, Curtains; Juano, West Side Story 

Other Theatres:  Director/Choreographer: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Nevada Conservatory Theatre (UNLV), Musical Theatre West, San Diego Musical Theatre, Palos Verdes Performing Arts, Utah Festival Opera, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center; Actor: Transcendence Theatre Company, 5-Star Theatricals, Long Beach Opera,  SLO Repertory Theatre, Performance Riverside, Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre, Chance Theatre.

Other:  Co-Founder and former Director of Studio Collective Performing Arts

Teaches:  Movement I

Training:  PCPA (Class of 2009), El Camino College (Dance)

Member:  Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Former Actors Equity Association

Teaching Philosophy

One can learn a lot about themselves when they understand the concept of flow in the body. That understanding unlocks the keys to transform into any character you set your mind to. Weather that is for acting or dance, it all comes from the same place. In many cases, we can clog our minds into thinking we aren’t movers, or our bodies can’t transform. But once we learn the tools needed to free our minds. We can be unstoppable.