I've been a sound and experience designer, theatrical producer, and educator for fifteen years in Chicago, and recently relocated to Portland.
I built a web + interactive agency that primarily serves cultural institutions by implementing technology that activates their audience through create unique and delightful experiences.
I have a passion for developing talent and potential in my collaborative teams, my students,
and the organizations that artists build.
directed by Ron "OJ" Parson.
directed by Jessica Hutchinson
Nominated for Best Sound Design, Non-Equity Jeff Awards 2009
Original Sound Performance Piece
"Nick Keenan's tremendous AM-radio sound design [helps] to suggest the way a life is remembered in bits and pieces: Memories are triggered by the smell of a blanket or the sound of a Moody Blues song, and can be reassuring and discomfiting at the same time."
- TimeOut Chicago
The lines of inquiry that informed my years as an emerging designer.
Read the Article"New Leaf seems to have selected The Dining Room to showcase its two most rarefied assets: its queerly elegant found space ... and its invaluable resident sound designer. As the cast pantomimes all the props to Nick Keenan's recorded, carefully placed effects of delicate papers being rustled or rattling flatware getting polished, you suspect the designer knows even better than the playwright the sound of a WASP's nest."
- Time Out Chicago - The Dining Room
Let's make something delightful.