For
a full list of his official acting credits, please visit his
page on the Internet
Movie Database (IMDB).
Keisuke
was a trumpet player all though high school (Stuyvesant HS
in NYC) and college, attending the Crane School of Music after
three
glorious
summers as a camper
at the
New York State Music
Camp
(NYSMC) in 1982-85 - the forerunner of NYSMF. He holds
an MS in Technical Communications from RPI (Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute).
Retiring
from music at the age of 20, Keisuke worked as a multimedia
designer and project manager
at the IBM, NCR, and AT&T Corporations. He fled these bastions
of "Corporate
America" in 1997 for a full-time
acting career with occassional forays into freelance graphic
design, web design, and
computer
consulting.
In
2005, Keisuke returned to Oneonta as the new Musical Theatre
instructor for the Hartwick Festival. He completely re-invented
the program, transforming it into a workshop that taught
the basics of writing for the stage and screen, challenging
the students to build their own original production in under
2 weeks. He also added classes in filmmaking and acting from
a working actor's perspective.
Co-founding
NYSMF in 2006, Keisuke continued teaching these creative workshop
programs while also taking on the mantle of NYSMF's webmaster,
photographer,
videographer, graphic designer, media production house, computer
support clearinghouse, official Festival Host, and many other
responsibilities
falling
under his deliberately generic title as NYSMF's Director of Communications.
And
although his agent grumbles back on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood,
CA, he gladly returns every summer to NYSMF to continue giving
back something to a
place
that gave
him so
much as a kid.
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