APR 2026

THE PERFECT MATCH comes to Syracuse!

The Inaugural Syracuse Actors’ Studio Film Festival at the Palace Theater, April 19!

FEB & MAR 2026

Award laurel wreath with text 'Official Selection WRPN Women's International Film Festival 2026'

and one of the ten finalists for the 2026 Stanley Drama Award!

SCRIPT: Daisy & Jordan (+Tom +Nick)

DEC

St Petersburg, FL

Why Did They Get Me A Roomba?

A Holiday Comedy

PRODUCED AND BROADCAST ON

Poster with a vintage microphone in the center, surrounded by lightning bolts, with text reading 'STUDIO @ 620' at the top and 'LIVE RADIO THEATRE' at the bottom.
Poster for The Radio Theatre Project event at The Studio @ 620, featuring a vintage microphone on the right, with event details: date December 22 at 7:00 PM, and a background with bokeh lights and concentric circles.

NOV

The Acorn Theatre

Three Oaks, MI

Poster for the Acorn presents Spectacular Tournament of Playwrights, featuring photos of five diverse individuals. The poster states the event is on Saturday, November 15th at 7 pm ET, a 10-minute playwriting competition, hosted by acornlive.org, with a stage and red curtains background.
Vintage postcard map of Long Island featuring seaside scenes, beaches, and a lighthouse, with the text 'Greetings from Long Island' and a bold overlay that says 'Amicably, Kinda Sorta'.
Poster for the 2025 Spectacular Tournament of Playwrights, featuring finalist Johanna Beale Keller, with a photo of her smiling and wearing black glasses, red stage curtains on each side, and event details at the bottom.

Edna arrives home with Chinese take-out and a sneaky plan to get rid of her gambling-addicted real-estate husband Manny, whose greed makes it impossible for him to sniff out her scheme. But Manny has a plan too.

OCT

Syracuse, NY

Syracuse Actors Studio (SAS) Writers Panel

A panel discussion at an event with four people sitting on a stage, with a large screen behind them displaying text and images of speakers. The panelists include a woman with dark hair in a red dress holding a microphone, a man in a white tuxedo with a black bow tie, a woman with white hair and glasses, and another woman in a red jacket holding papers. The audience is visible in the foreground, and a potted plant is on the table in front of the panelists.
Group photo featuring headshots of five actors from the SAS 20: Play & Screen Writers Panel, including a woman with dark hair and a maroon sweater, a black-and-white portrait of a man with short hair, and a woman with gray hair and glasses, among others.

Tracy Chamberlain Higginbotham moderator, with panelists Aaron Williams, Alexis Martin, James Marlowe & Johanna Beale Keller

SEPT

Folsom, CA

Logo for Free Fall Stage with a silhouette of a stage, a curtain, and a teapot, and text 'Free Fall Stage'
Black and white poster for the Sactown Play Festival 2025, featuring two theatrical masks, a stopwatch, and the logo of the Free Fall Stage.

WINNER of the

AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD 2025

Three actors in Johanna Beale Keller's play, "Riley vs Riley," winner of the Audience Favorite Award, and produced by FreeFall Stage, actors are sitting on a black sofa with a projected image of a stone room in the background.
Poster for a play titled 'Riley versus Riley' by Johanna Beale Keller. Features four headshots of cast members with their names and roles: Cassie Weissenberg as Director, Clinton Verge as Riley Armstrong, Willuam Weissenberg as Riley Ziegler, and Gwendolen Robison as Blake. The background depicts a textured, arched wall with a small window and light shining through.

SEPT

PREMIERE

The Marshallers

BABELFEST at Redhouse Arts Center Syracuse, NY

Three people on stage dressed as construction workers, two crouching and one standing. The person in the front right is wearing a yellow safety vest and headphones. The person in the center is crouching, wearing a black shirt. The person in the background is standing, holding traffic cones, and wearing a yellow safety vest over a black shirt.
Group of five diverse people standing together in front of a Redhouse Arts Center backdrop, smiling, with arms around each other.
Poster for Babel Fest 2025, a 10-minute play festival at Redhouse Arts Center in Central New York, September 27-28, 2025, featuring headshots and names of eight playwrights and their works.
A collage with a cartoon illustration of three marshals at the top, each holding a baton, and a photograph of three real-life marshals wearing reflective vests, standing against a black background, with one holding a red baton.

Cast : Cameron Jay Chamberlain, Evelyn Oliver & Donovan Stanfield

Directed by Joseph Whelan

OCT

San Francisco, CA

RADIO BCAST

Text that reads 'The Perfect Match' in black, casual font.
Logo for the Shockisting Radio the Aare Inc., featuring a radio tower emitting red and blue lightning bolts with the station's name curved around it.

Casey…….Tricia Callero

Chris…….Chris Olson

The Computer…….Kevin Meyer

Written by…..Johanna Beale Keller

Directed by……Kathy Domenici

Produced by….Steve Rubenstein

AUG

50th Anniversary Samuel French Concord Theatricals

NYC Off Off Broadway Festival

Event poster for the 50th OB Festival, featuring the top 30 kids, with dates July 29 to August 2, 2025, in New York City, and a list of performers' names.

That Hike to Hart Lake, a play about friendship and mortality that premiered last year at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, NY will be featured at the 50th Anniversary Off Off Broadway Festival presented by Samuel French Concord Theatricals. The original cast returned under Theatre Three’s executive artistic director, Jeffrey Sanzel. CAST: Julia Albino, Sean Amato, Jae Hughes, Cassidy Rose O’Brien, Steven Uihlein

A group of seven people, four women and three men, posing together in front of black banners with white text promoting the Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.

SEPT

Daisy & Jordan (+Tom +Nick)

A new Play In Progress

A laurel wreath design for the 2025 Austin Film Festival includes the text 'Script Competition Second Rounder Austin Film Festival 2025' in handwritten style.
A scene from the movie The Great Gatsby with text overlay, discussing Gatsby's lifestyle and the story's narration.

JULY

Redlands, CA

Logo for the Redlands Theatre Festival featuring a stylized citrus slice with black, gray, white, and orange segments, topped with silhouettes of palm trees and a flying witch on a broomstick at the top.

WINNER of the

BEST MONOLOGUE - COMEDY

AWARD 2025

Why Did They Get Me A Roomba? : Monologue for Actor & Robo-Vac

An outdoor theater or stage with seating, illuminated at dusk, with trees and a building in the background.
A certificate for the Redlands Theatre Festival, presenting the third annual New Works Collection in 2025, awarded to Johanna Beale Keller for the monologue comedy 'Why Did They Get Me a Roomba?'. The certificate features a vintage typewriter illustration and is signed by Carol Damgen, Stevie Taken, and David Pavao.

Starring Kirstie Elizabeth, Directed by Stevie Taken. Selected for this festival out of more than 600 submissions, the monologue is about our tendency to bond with our appliances —- especially when we’re lonely!

SEPT

The Village Playbox

Haddon Heights, NJ

Poster promoting an act one scene one festival weekend from September 11 to 13, 2025.
A woman with glasses sitting on a chair with her legs crossed, talking, with a man standing behind her, gently touching her shoulders. They are on a stage with a black background, and there is a table with a paper bag and a small white box on it.

Amicably, Kinda Sorta

MADCAP MARITAL REVENGE

ON LAWN-GUY-LAND

(Long Island)

Directed by Samantha Harner

Starring Fred DeFeo

& Kate Johnston

2025

Film Festivals

& Awards

Poster for the film 'The Perfect Match' featuring actors Derek Emerson Powell and Evelyn Oliver wearing blue hats, smiling at each other. The poster includes festival selections and screening dates and locations, with the film written and directed by Johanna Beale Keller.
Collection of eight award laurels and certificates for film festivals and awards, including Southern Shorts Awards, OniiROS Film Awards, Magnolia Independent Film Festival, Rogue Theatre Festival NYC, and Bedford International Film Festival, with categories such as Best Comedy, Best Screenplay, and official selections for the years 2023 and 2025.

JUNE

NYC

The New School University

READING at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society’s annual conference, devoted this year to the centennial of the publication of The Great Gatsby.

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A READING of scenes from Daisy & Jordan (+Tom +Nick)

Evelyn Oliver & Lucy Purnine

Close-up portrait of a young woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a rust-colored top, smiling softly at the camera against a plain white background.
Portrait of a young woman with shoulder-length brown hair, blue eyes, and a bright smile, wearing a red top against a plain gray background.

In this radical re-imagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Daisy Buchanan and her childhood friend, the celebrity golfer Jordan Baker have had a long-time love affair. When Daisy's husband Tom discovers the two women together, they concoct a plan to distract his attention toward the con man, Jay Gatsby, who is obsessed with Daisy. The naïve Nick Carraway, who idolizes Gatsby, is caught in the crossfire, but refuses to see the truth: that Gatsby is a con man, that Daisy loves Jordan, and that Gatsby is a pathological liar. (a 90-minute stage-play for four actors).

JUNE

PREMIERE

Riley versus Riley, or How To Write A Play

Nova Scotia, Canada

Directed by Gregory Muskie

Katie Rose (as Blake), Ian Dunbar (Riley Armstrong) & Kate Silver (Riley Ziegler)

Logo of Kings Theatre with a graphic of green shorts and a crown, and the text 'King's Shorts'
Three women on a stage with black background, engaged in a theatrical performance. One woman is sitting on a bench to the left, the second woman is in the middle, and the third woman is standing on the right, pointing a finger.

MAY

Southern Shorts Film Festival Awards

The Perfect Match

from Gatespring Productions

AWARDS

BEST COMEDY

&

BEST SCREENPLAY

Nominations for

BEST ACTRESS, BEST ACTOR,

BEST MUSIC & BEST SOUND DESIGN!

Congratulations to the cast and crew

who made this all possible!

A collage of award graphics, show posters, and a photo of two young people wearing blue hats. The awards include Best Comedy, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor/Actress for the film 'The Perfect Match,' directed by Johanna Beale Kelle.

MAY

In this radical re-imagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Daisy Buchanan and her childhood friend, the celebrity golfer Jordan Baker have had a long-time love affair. When Daisy's husband Tom discovers the two women together, they concoct a plan to distract his attention toward the con man, Jay Gatsby, who is obsessed with Daisy. The naïve Nick Carraway, who idolizes Gatsby, is caught in the crossfire, but refuses to see the truth: that Gatsby is a con man, that Daisy loves Jordan, and that Gatsby is a pathological liar.

(90-minute stage-play for four actors).

Promotional poster for a play titled 'Daisy & Jordan (+Tom +Nick)'. The poster includes a quote from 'The Great American Novel' in the top section, a subtitle indicating it's a new play by Johanna Beale Keller, and photographs of four actors: Lucy Purnine, Magdalen Donnelly, Donovan Stanfield, and Derek Powell along with narrator Alexis Martin. The event is scheduled for Sunday, May 18 at 2 pm at the Downtown YMCA in Syracuse, with live and Zoom options.

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