Keith Pinto

Office: WSQ 104
408-924-5041
keith.pinto@sjsu.edu


Keith Pinto is an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, rapper, musician, and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Keith has been seen in Stand Up Tragedy as Paco and choreographer, Annie as "Rooster", Damn Yankees as Rocky, and 1776 as the Courier. He toured Europe and North America with Fame the Musical. Keith is a co-founder of the San Francisco-based hip hop band Felonious, which has recorded numerous albums and has performed in the Bay Area, LA, Chicago, and Germany. As well as shows with Black Eyed Peas, De La Soul, LL Cool J, The Roots, Pato Banton, and Erykah Badu. With Felonious, Mr. Pinto choreographed and performed the role of Zack in Beatbox: A Raparetta, developed at San José Rep's New America Playwrights Festival and produced in San Francisco, Oakland, the New York Hip Hop Theater Festival, and Hamburg Germany. Keith recently performed at the New York International Fringe Festival in Becoming Britney (a Britney Spears musical) as K-Fed and Justin Timberlake, as well as performing in and choreographing the world premier of Angry Black White Boy at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.