Joseph Keckler is a singer, writer, and multi-media performance artist who has appeared at such venues as HERE Arts Center, The Guggenheim, Dixon Place Theater, Performance Studies International, The Walters Art Museum, Galapagos Art Space, Jordan Hall, SF MOMA, Performance Space 122, La Mama, Joe’s Pub, The Kitchen, and The Public Theater.

Last year he and Erin Markey were playwrights in The Lincoln Center Directors Lab, further developing their full-length avant musical, Looking For Limbo. In 2007 Keckler was also a finalist in The New England Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a visiting Witt Artist in Residence at The University of Michigan, hosted by mentor Holly Hughes. He is a member of John Moran’s company, recently appearing as "Death" in What if Saori Had a Party? at PS122. In November When the Cigarette is Over, a short film created with animator/filmmaker Mike Enright, was featured at the opening of The 20th Annual MIX Festival.

"Mr. Keckler is gifted with that rare ability to pick and choose among multiple talents and media to weave compelling stories that transcend limiting qualifiers... he’s a singer, writer, narrator and all-around performance artist who does what is needed, when it’s needed, and with great aplomb, to deliver pieces filled with humor and pathos. With slight twists of inflection or accent, through narration and song, off-stage and on, and with a liberal and poetic facility with language, he brings a gentle humanity to "Cat Lady," a smart, taut narrative piece....

...Embedded in Mr. Keckler’s work is the theme of alienation, of having been beaten down in the world but struggling to bounce back in some inscrutable way to regain one’s life or free oneself from a kind of prison... Joseph Keckler is an artist in the truest sense of the word. Working in a boggling array of genres, including opera, Keckler has experimented and found what works." -- William Coyle, Offoffonline.com

"This young up-and-comer is taking the stages of downtown Manhattan by storm. He has the enviable ability to transition, in a chameleon-like fashion, through a spectrum of performance personae. On any given night you might find him tricked out all goth-rock and mysterious or catch him in a high camp mood, strutting around in tight leopard print pants a diamante neck tie. Tonight he’s a dead ringer for a young Johnny Depp, complete with black leather jacket.... His operatic baritone is impressive… as is his masterly fusion of Classical, Punk, Cabaret, and the Blues…” -- Scenedowntown.com

"Intimate and sincere.... Really very animated and interesting to watch on stage..." -- NYTheatre.com

"With his zany imagination and distinctive bass-baritone voice, Joseph Keckler has been generating buzz throughout the gooey honeycomb of the downtown performance art cabaret scene" -- Gothamist

"Cartoonish and not un-doll-like"-- The New York Times

"Dreamweaver"-- Time Out New York