Cleo House

A native Texas, Cleo House-Keller earned a bachelor of science at Texas A&M University-Commerce and his MFA at Texas Tech University. He attended SFA's High School Theatre workshop in 1992.

House-Keller has previous acting credits that include:

• Teller and Posner Macbeth at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC and the Two River Theatre Company, New Jersey
• Hammer in "Insurrection: Holding History" at the Theatre Alliance, Washington, DC
• Amusa in "Death and the King's Horseman" at the The Lantern Theatre, Philadelphia
• Aaron in "Titus" at the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival
• and Boy Willie in "The Piano Lesson" at theTheatre of the Seventh Sister, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

National directing credits include:

• "Hello Dolly!" at the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival
• "Cry Cristiana Morning" at the Theatre of the Seventh Sister
• and the Lincoln Center's Directors Lab, New York City.

SFA Mainstage directing credits include:

• "Pinkalicious the Musical"
• "Sweat"
• "Titus Andronicus"
• "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead"
• "Bootycandy"
• "The Jungle Book Kids"
• "Lord of the Flies"

He is a Helen Hayes Nominee for Outstanding Ensemble and has won numerous regional awards as a director in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. House-Keller was formerly coordinator of Theatre at Penn State-Berks College, chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Southern University and chair of Speech and Theatre at Clark Atlanta University.