- Maggie Keenan-Bolger
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Maggie Keenan-Bolger Born Margaret Keenan-Bolger
December 2, 1983
Detroit, MichiganWebsite http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=163415971 Margaret "Maggie" Keenan-Bolger (born December 2, 1983 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress, singer, playwright, and dancer. She is the sister of Tony Award-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger and Broadway child star Andrew Keenan-Bolger.
Keenan-Bolger starred as a munchkin in the Madison Square Garden production of the Wizard of Oz as a very young child opposite Roseanne Barr. She has credits in the national tours of The Will Rogers Follies and The Music Man as well as numerous regional credits and college productions at Oberlin College where she graduated from in 2006 with a BA in Theatre and Gender & Woman's Studies with a minor in Comparative American Studies. She also is one of the founding members of 4th Meal Productions that produces independent plays as well as a YouTube web series entitled The Gifted Girls in which Maggie stars.[1][2]
She recently performed in a special cabaret alongside her two sibling entitled (Keenan-Bolger)³, the first time all three Keenan-Bolgers have performed together on stage in 15 years, to a sold out house.[3] As a playwright she created and wrote the play From the Inside, Out about her own experiences as a self injurer and other stories about "cutting" from hundreds of people in which Bolger personally interviewed. Produced by 4th Meal Productions, it was originally performed at Oberlin College and also played at the noted New York International Fringe Festival in August 2008.
Keenan-Bolger currently resides in the Manhattan borough of New York City and works at The Creative Arts Team, Urban Stages and The Leadership Program, three theatre in education non-profits based in New York City. She is a recent graduate of CUNY's Applied Theatre Grad school program using theater to educate, activate and facilitate. While there she produced, directed and performed in Her Train Of Thought, a devised theatrical project exploring issues of women's experiences in public space. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA and Actor's Equity.
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Categories:- 1983 births
- Living people
- American musical theatre actors
- Oberlin College alumni
- People from Detroit, Michigan
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