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Cobb graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in acting. He has appeared in classical and contemporary roles on regional stages country-wide, including the role of Tyr Anasazi in the science-fiction series Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, as Noah Keefer on All My Children, as Damon Porter for the CBS daytime drama, The Young and the Restless; and as Quincy Abrams for the Logo Network series, Noah’s Arc. Keith’s true love is the theatre, stage acting, and live performance—especially Shakespearean performance. His regional theatre credits include such venues as The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington DC, and the Denver Theatre Center, performing such classical roles as Laertes in “Hamlet,” Tybalt in “Romeo and Juliet,” Tullus Aufidius in “Coriolanus,” Oberon in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” as well as roles in such contemporary dramas as David Mamet’s “Race,” August Wilson’s “Jitney,” and Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined.”

Although the project started in 2012, Cobb showcased a play in 2015 called American Moor which reckons with the impossible task of staging Othello today—a task which African-American stage actors are nonetheless inexorably pressed to perform on a regular basis. Since then, the show has been produced with talkbalks at the Plaza Theatre in Boston, the Anacostia Playhouse in DC, off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan in 2019, and many college campuses across the country. For his role in American Moor, Keith won the 2015 Audelco Award for best solo performance and the 2018 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding solo performance. The play itself has garnered great scholarly acclaim, and is part of the permanent collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.