About
Hi! I’m Keith Patrick Dunn. Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana I now live in northern New Jersey and commute just across the Hudson to work in New York!
I’ve been acting since I was 16 and I’ve done a lot of plays and some work on two major films, Hoosiers and Eight Men Out, as well as starring in a short film by PrimeHD.com called Dead Beat as Kevin, the nervous security Guard. I'm currently working on THE MILITIA 15, a short for Scott Goldberg Films...lots of blood!
I limited my credits below to a cross section of all the work I've done over the years.
In addition, I took a workshop for professional actors last Spring at the Stella Adler Studio with Sam Schacht.
NOW! About those videos and pics up there: (The videos seem to change position on the page so the following order may be incorrect...)
The video is a 30 second spot for iRise by PrimeHD.com.
The first headshot was an accident but I really like it. The next headshot was on purpose and I like it less. Then there's a still from a short film I did (with a shotgun)called "Dead Beat" and a still from the film "Hoosiers" as I am just about to occlude Oscar Winner Gene Hackman! Albeit for only a millisecond and out of focus. BUT STILL! Then me as Charlemagne in "Pippin" a while back. Then there are some character pics from last summer's Midtown International Theatre Festival production of "Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants" in NYC and a mobile phone pic of me backstage at a benefit concert last Christmas. Finally there are some random pics and a clipping from a paper during my college days just for fun.
So THAT is what's with the weird and wonderful media.
Areas Of Expertise
Acting is certainly an area of my expertise but I feel like a dork saying so.
I once asked a director for a letter of recommendation to send to an acting school and they actually wrote that I "learned his lines word per (sic) word". The letter was unusable! It's like saying that as a human I "exchanged oxygen in my lungs for carbon dioxide". Bravo!
When I moved to the NYC area I began working in SALES for the first time. I became really good at it. I could sell someone something they didn't want in the wrong color and have them apologizing to me for taking so long on the way out of the store.
The reason I was SO good at sales, I sold $2000 ergonomic computer chairs, was that people like me. I really listen and respond appropriately. It's not hard. But it's seldom done.
Think of this the next time you're in a conversation with a friend or family member and observe it in yourself, the person listening with their mouth open is just waiting to fill the space left by the person currently speaking. They do not hear. The key is to literally keep one's mouth shut.
I'm a good listener.
I also seem to know just enough about a number of subjects to fit in well in myriad situations.
I know a little bit about cars, basketball, football, baseball, cooking, "the arts", politics, religion, the occult, Joss Whedon's universes, TV, photography, popular music, DJing and dance floor light shows and cats...the house kind AND the awful show.
I also know just enough Irish language to get punched in the face, as I like to say.
Basically, I guess my ONE big area of expertise is being a smart, gregarious but not obnoxious, funny human who cares about people. There's worse things to be good at!