Keith Powell Biography

Keith Powell is an American television actor, writer, and director who is known for his role as James "Toofer" Spurlock on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, and for creating and starring in the web series Keith Broke His Leg.

Career

Powell was the Producing Artistic Director of Contemporary Stage Company, a summer theater in Wilmington, Delaware. He has produced/starred in/directed shows with Lynn Redgrave, Jasmine Guy, Keith David, Richard Easton, Duncan Sheik, and Sean Patrick Thomas. Producing credits include New York productions of The Mouse That Roared, Enter Pissarro, Indra & Agni Collide and a workshop of Kidding Jane with Ellen McLaughlin and William Charles Mitchell. Powell was the resident director for Equalogy, a professional touring company promoting social change, for which he directed two plays by August Schulenberg, Four Hearts Changing and One Night. His other directing credits include Dutchman, Quality of Silence, The Visit and Enter Pissarro. As an actor, Powell has appeared in numerous national network commercials. His theatre credits include Romeo & Juliet (The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C. ), Kidding Jane (Portland Stage Company), Macbeth (Pittsburgh Public Theater), As Bees in Honey Drown (Hangar Theater, Ithaca, New York), and The French (HB Playwrights Foundation, NYC) among others.

In the spring of 2007, while working as a recurring character on 30 Rock, he shot an ABC pilot called Judy's Got A Gun. It was subsequently not picked up for the Fall 2007 season, and Powell returned to 30 Rock, where he was promoted to a series regular.

In October 2008, Powell launched and starred in a self-funded web series called Keith Powell Directs a Play chronicling Powell"?s foray into directing Uncle Vanya at a fictional repertory theatre group.

In 2009, Powell was a guest commentator on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s, and also played a Tuskegee Airman in the movie Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

In 2014, Powell began a recurring role on the television series About a Boy as Richard, Will's workaholic friend/accountant/business manager.

Powell recurred on the final season of The Newsroom. He also appeared in the feature film My Name Is David.

In 2015, he created, wrote, directed, and starred in the web series Keith Broke His Leg.

In 2016 Powell appeared as a middle school talent show instructor in a music video for the Jukebox the Ghost song "Hollywood"

Biography

Powell was born in West Philadelphia and later moved to California. Powell graduated from St. Mark's High School in Wilmington, Delaware. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2001.

In July 2012, Keith proposed to his girlfriend of three years, visual artist Jill Knox. They married in October 2013. Before they were married, the pair were featured buying a fixer upper to move into together on the HGTV series House Hunters

Powell splits his time between New York City and Los Angeles.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Dog Eat Dog	Raleigh Fitzsimmons	short
2003	Law and Order: Criminal Intent	Gregg Monroe	1 episode
2004	Jargon	Our Hero	short
2005	Law & Order	Mike	1 episode
2006-2013	30 Rock	Toofer	130 episodes
2007	Judy's Got a Gun	Brad Wilkes	TV movie
2008	Last Comic Standing	Talent Scout	1 episode
	Best Week Ever	Himself	1 episode
	I Love the New Millennium	Himself	8 episodes
2009	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	Tuskegee Airman #1
	Black to the Future	Himself
	The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet	Himself	1 episode
	Armless	Hotel Receptionist
	Reno 911!	Innocent Black Man	1 episode
2012	House Hunters	Himself
	NCIS: Los Angeles	Robert Pierce	1 episode
2013	Syrup	Cameron
2014	About a Boy	Richard	6 episodes
	The Newsroom	Wyatt Geary	2 episodes
2015	My Name Is David	David
	Keith Broke His Leg	Himself	10 episodes
2016	Deadbeat	Lonathan	1 episode