Bio

A versatile film and stage actor known for disappearing into characters, Eric is determined to keep you guessing, one existential crisis at a time. Eric has a knack for playing duplicitous loners, and he relishes the opportunities he has been given to play multiple characters within the same project. Highlights include playing 13 different characters in the stage play, The Baltimore Waltz, and a record 21 characters in the play, Amelia!

Eric is a magna cum laude theatre graduate of The Ohio State University – Go Bucks! He has played hundreds of characters over his career in plays, films, tv, and commercials. Recently, Eric starred in the sci-fi action-thriller, Agent (another dual-personality type of role), and made his television debut on TNT’s Franklin & Bash. Eric loves to travel and has performed in Edinburgh in The Bacchae, in London in the Notting Hill Carnival, and toured the East Coast alongside the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In Los Angeles, he trained for many years at The Howard Fine Acting Studio in Howard’s master class and recently has enjoyed taking improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Eric is proud to be an active participant in the LA theater community, and has performed with the Echo Theater Company, Theatre40, Crown City Theatre, Moving Arts, Arcane Theatreworks, and others. He also works frequently (13 productions and counting) with immersive theater company, Unbound Productions, which produces the Ovation Award-winning Wicked Lit shows every Halloween season.

Eric is a photographer and avid hiker, with a particular love for nature and landscape photography. See his work on Instagram @wanderingnatureguy, or visit his actor page @whoiserickeitel.

REVIEWS

VILLAINY ~ OR ~ H.H. HOLMES’ OWN STORY
“Eric Keitel is suave as the smooth-talking Holmes. His kind face and soft tone of voice are surely not those of a killer, right?”
-Stage Raw

“Keitel does a superb job of playing a sociopath, gaslighting his lovers and eventually killing them in a variety of maniacal ways.”
-Rue Morgue

“Eric Keitel is very convincing as the villain with an almost hypnotic power over women and zero level of remorse.”
-Indulge Magazine

WICKED LIT: THE DEAD SMILE
“Eric Keitel, portraying Gabriel, steals the spotlight of the evening as the most intelligent, interesting, capable, and dedicated performer of the entire experience. A young actor I as a director would be most interested in casting in one of my own productions, Keitel proves he has the passion, dedication, and understanding of the art of acting that will propel him to stardom with the assistance of the right projects and quality direction.”
-The California Theater Critic

THE MANOR
“Eric Keitel gives a subtly nuanced performance as the exuberant Sean who becomes weathered by time.”
-LA Excites

OPENING NIGHT
“As usher Tom Delaney, Eric Keitel perhaps has the most promise, fully embodying his character with naivety, great comedic timing and passion for the craft.”
-LifeinLA

MYSTERY LIT: HOLMES, SHERLOCK, AND THE CONSULTING DETECTIVE
“Company veteran Eric Keitel takes on three distinct roles in the stories and makes a very powerful villain when necessary.”
-Paul Myrvold’s Theatre Notes

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
“Eric Keitel shone as the sharpest of the courtiers, Berowne, with a nimble delivery of lines and an understated style.”
-The Columbus Dispatch

THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES
“Keitel makes Comet truthfully passionate and sincere.”
-Broadway World

THE SUITCASE
“Eric Keitel’s stillness lets a single gesture be a climax”
-Theatre Ghost

WICKED LIT – FROM BEYOND
“I was absolutely blown away by the sheer talent and devotion that these actors had for the characters.”
-Nightmarish Conjurings

THE BACCHAE
“Like all Greek tragedy it deals with enormous issues and emotions and requires extraordinary bravura acting. It gets that in spades in this all male version from the talented CalArts group…The actors are universally terrific.”
-Broadway Baby Offline