BIOGRAPHY

Eric McKeever is a New York based opera singer, arts administrator, and teaching artist, as well as a freelance writer and audio fiction podcast producer.

Eric has performed with Seattle Opera, Nashville Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Columbus, Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, OperaDelaware, Baltimore Opera, Opera Memphis, Indianapolis Opera, LA’s Pacific Opera Project, Anchorage Opera, and Salt Marsh Opera in Connecticut.

 On the concert stage he appeared with the Princeton Symphony, the Casals Festival of Puerto Rico, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, New Albany Symphony, Orchestra Lumos, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic, and the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra.

 Based in New York, he performed with New York City Opera, Bronx Opera, On Site Opera, Little Opera Theatre of New York, the Center for Contemporary Opera, Experiments in Opera, and HERE Arts. His repertoire ranged from traditional to new, including creating roles in Laura Kaminsky’s Lucidity and Kamala Sankaram’s Looking at You. He can be heard on the recording of Looking at You on the Bright Shiny Label’s release as well as a soloist in the Aqua Net and Funyuns podcast produced by Experiments in Opera.

As a writer, he currently pens the column, “Inside the Industry” as well as freelance articles for Classical Singer Magazine. Additionally, he has written several adaptations of traditional operas for Opera on Tap, City Lyric Opera, and Baltimore Opera. As a screenwriter, his scripts have placed in several prestigious writing competitions including the ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Roadmap Writers Coletta Preacely-Garcia, Fellowship, Table Read My Screenplay, Stage 32, Filmmatic, Scriptapalooza, and the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Diversity Initiative. He was recently selected to be in the 2026 Pre-Rainbow Pages Mentorship Class.

 He serves as the creator, writer, and producer of the audio comedy podcasts “The Coach” and “As The Chips Fall” which have charted on the Apple Comedy Fiction charts in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. He also created and hosts the awards season podcast “What’s The Buzz with Oscar?”

Updated 3/27/26