Lacey Keane
Actor. Singer. Writer. New Yorker.
Before crossing paths with Kevin Bright, Brett Ratner and Neil Patrick Harris, Lacey Keane gained local fame at age 3 singing “I Love You, You Love Me” and “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” at New York’s Villa Roma Ski Resort, but gracefully gave up the limelight for an education. She attended Dominican Academy in New York City, an all-girls Catholic school, where she slept through history class, recorded a badass version of Rufus Wainwright’s “Hallelujah,” and studied which Grand Central food carts had the best knishes.
She took the lead in all the plays and musicals (Scarlet Pimpernel; No, No, Nanette; and Six Degrees of Separation) at nearby Regis High School, except for Guys and Dolls, when Lady Gaga beat her out for the role of Adelaide, so she doesn’t feel too bad about that one. Gaga may have won the battle, but Lacey plans to win the war, or at least the inevitable edition of Celebrity Feuds.
Lacey shipped up to Boston for her BFA in Musical Theatre at Emerson College. As a sophomore, she starred as ‘Emma’ in Nicky Silver’s Pterodactyls, a lighthearted comedy about AIDS, rape, and death. She was also the lead in Kevin Bright’s original sitcom Ground Floor, in which she stretched the limits of her comfort zone to play a struggling actress in a lobster suit. I guess after working with Jennifer Aniston on FRIENDS, Kevin wanted to take it to the next level.
After two years, Lacey realized that she was different—she didn’t wear Urban Outfitters or even smoke clove cigarettes. She shopped at Loehmann’s, for God’s sake! She left Emerson and returned home to enroll at the New York Film Academy on the Brett Ratner Scholarship for extremely talented people. Thanks, Rush Hour! Lacey performed John Guare’s The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year as a member of the Spring Honors Ensemble at Gramercy Park’s Players Club. Coincidentally, Phillip Seymour Hoffman was speaking at the school that same night and said he would stop by for the show! He didn’t.
Lacey made the jump to Los Angeles in 2010. She missed home until she booked a job playing Snooki and decided that New York was way too close to the Jersey Shore anyway. She stayed and quickly convinced her more successful journalist boyfriend Pete to move cross-country as well. They live in the South Bay where they enjoy long walks on the beach with Bob, their neurologically-impaired bulldog.
Currently, Lacey is scaring the shit out of people in Neil Patrick Harris’ Delusion: The Blood Rite and singing in an over-40 rock & roll cover band lead by her father, who would be happy to tell you about the time he “played” with Peter Frampton and various other music legends.
She took the lead in all the plays and musicals (Scarlet Pimpernel; No, No, Nanette; and Six Degrees of Separation) at nearby Regis High School, except for Guys and Dolls, when Lady Gaga beat her out for the role of Adelaide, so she doesn’t feel too bad about that one. Gaga may have won the battle, but Lacey plans to win the war, or at least the inevitable edition of Celebrity Feuds.
Lacey shipped up to Boston for her BFA in Musical Theatre at Emerson College. As a sophomore, she starred as ‘Emma’ in Nicky Silver’s Pterodactyls, a lighthearted comedy about AIDS, rape, and death. She was also the lead in Kevin Bright’s original sitcom Ground Floor, in which she stretched the limits of her comfort zone to play a struggling actress in a lobster suit. I guess after working with Jennifer Aniston on FRIENDS, Kevin wanted to take it to the next level.
After two years, Lacey realized that she was different—she didn’t wear Urban Outfitters or even smoke clove cigarettes. She shopped at Loehmann’s, for God’s sake! She left Emerson and returned home to enroll at the New York Film Academy on the Brett Ratner Scholarship for extremely talented people. Thanks, Rush Hour! Lacey performed John Guare’s The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year as a member of the Spring Honors Ensemble at Gramercy Park’s Players Club. Coincidentally, Phillip Seymour Hoffman was speaking at the school that same night and said he would stop by for the show! He didn’t.
Lacey made the jump to Los Angeles in 2010. She missed home until she booked a job playing Snooki and decided that New York was way too close to the Jersey Shore anyway. She stayed and quickly convinced her more successful journalist boyfriend Pete to move cross-country as well. They live in the South Bay where they enjoy long walks on the beach with Bob, their neurologically-impaired bulldog.
Currently, Lacey is scaring the shit out of people in Neil Patrick Harris’ Delusion: The Blood Rite and singing in an over-40 rock & roll cover band lead by her father, who would be happy to tell you about the time he “played” with Peter Frampton and various other music legends.