Denis McKeown

SAG actor Denis McKeown recently appeared as a New York City reporter in the Richard Gere film "Hoax" being shot in New York, enabling him to get his Screen Actors Guild Membership. It was a natural for him since he started his career as a reporter/feature writer/editor with The New York Daily News before moving into film work with a documentary film on the NAACP and and another on Calvary Hospital in The Bronx. His documentary on Calvary Hospital won the International Film and Television Festival Grand Award/Multi-Image. His acting career started in summer stock opposite Carly Simon in "Kiss Me, Kate!". His theater career began with his original, full-length Viet-Nam-era play, "Barracks", being given a Staged Reading at Theatre Studio Inc. in Manhattan. His compassionate family-drama, drama "Companions", written in honor of his Irish immigrant mother, Tessie, was first performed in 2003 at the Midtown International Theatre Festival at the Abingdon Theatre in Manhattan. Other dramatic