“A single mother fighting to get her car back becomes a reckoning with the systems stacked against her.”
The recurring shape of Keasey's work — across Tow, Parallel, and the long-running Barracks Thief adaptation — is the small, stubborn person against the large, indifferent system. The legal mind shows up in the writing: a precise sense of what a procedure costs, and an instinct for the moment a process becomes a fight.
Earlier credits include international television for Sony (The Wavez, Gamergate) and feature work with Warner Bros., Fox, Columbia, and Paramount.
Keasey teaches a screenwriting masterclass at Trinity College Dublin, returning to teaching after earlier stints at Seattle University and The Film School — where he served as Executive Director of the Inmates Screenwriting Initiative, a program that brought story craft inside a correctional setting.
In 2024 he delivered keynotes at Screen Ireland and Creative Europe, and was awarded the Voice for Justice Award from the Center for Justice and Post Exoneration Assistance.
Open to teaching, speaking, and the right adaptation conversations.
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