BIOGRAPHY

Eric McKeever is a former opera singer, arts administrator, and teaching artist. He is currently a freelance writer and audio fiction podcast producer.

 Before retiring from opera, Eric enjoyed a thriving career having sung 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. A comedy writer at heart, his spec screenplays and pilots have placed in several prestigious writing competitions including Table Read My Screenplay, Stage 32 Comedy Feature Screenwriting Contest, Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards, Scriptapalooza, and the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Diversity Initiative.

 He serves as the creator, writer, and producer of “The Coach” Audio Comedy Podcast which has been heard globally and charted on the Apple Comedy Fiction charts in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. “The Coach” Season 2 will be released in the fall of 2025. He’s hard at work on his newest audio fiction project, “As The Chips Fall,” a comedy soap opera podcast, which will debut in early 2026.

Updated 9/23/25