Frederick Keeve

Frederick Keeve has been writing most of his life either for pleasure academically or professionally for the entertainment business His first short story The Lost Island was published in a limited edition when he was in sixth grade He has also been making films since he was 10yearsold growing up in Santa Monica with his brother Douglas Keeve who is a writerdirector living in New York Keeves first film was Maxine Waters EPC starring Edward Alan Young This was a documentary about an employment preparation center in in South Central Los Angeles seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers on KCET public television Keeve also produced wrote directed and composed the score for the awardwinning From Russia to Hollywood The 100Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff which featured many awardwinning and nominated actors such as Gregory Peck in his last screen role Jack Palance Patricia Neal Anthony Quinn Robert Stack Leslie Caron Beatrice Straight Sharon Gless Lloyd Bridges and many more closing the Hollywood Film Festival and garnering rave reviews in Variety Keeve has optioned and developed screenplays from bestselling novels by noted writers such as Edgar winner T Jefferson Parker and Pulitzernominated author Bill Granger He has previously developed a slate of eight independent feature films with budgets ranging from 25M to 20M with Sonny Ritscher Chief Controller for megabudget films at both Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox Watchmen Green Lantern Unfaithful Keeve is a soughtafter script doctor and enjoys writing screenplay coverage He was hired to adapt a vampire novel Vengeance Comes for the screen Keeve is an accomplished musician music director accompanist and composer He wrote the book music and lyrics for the original musical Three Songs from the Heart produced in Los Angeles under the auspices of the Festival of New American Musicals The musical featured Broadway caliber talent Ilene Graff On Broadway Promises Promises I Love My Wife Grease Marcus Choi Hamilton and was directed by Lance Roberts On Broadway The PeeWee Herman Show Sister Act Ghost My Fair Lady He has also recently organized and implemented two road shows for 100 actors in Salt Lake City with noted Hollywood Talent Agents and Casting Directors