About ME
I create bold, unapologetic stories that center culture, identity, and human connection. As a director, playwright, and author, my work is rooted in purpose, collaboration, and a commitment to telling stories that matter.
Driven by passion
Bryan-Keyth Wilson is an award-winning author, playwright, director, and choreographer of Cuban and Louisiana Creole descent. He is known for his groundbreaking work in choreopoems and contemporary musical theatre, centering the complexity of identity, legacy, and liberation through a fusion of poetry, movement, and music to create visceral theatrical experiences.
Wilson began producing theatre Off-Off-Broadway at The Variety Café at Rockefeller Center with original works including PAMLET and The Subway Series. He studied Musical Theatre with a dance emphasis at Sam Houston State University and is the founding artistic director of Inspire Arts Center.
He is the inaugural recipient of the Paterson Performing Arts & Development Council Playwright Residency Award and the winner of the NYC Playwrights Resist Fascism contest for his monologue Thee 92%. He also received a playwright residency and virtual showcase for his choreopoem FOR COLORED BOYZ on the verge of a nervous breakdown/ when freedom ain’t enuff through the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. Wilson won the inaugural Stories of Diversity Playwright Festival at The Fulton Theatre, where he directed and choreographed the world premiere of FOR COLORED BOYZ. The work went on to receive four literary awards and a sold-out Off-Broadway showcase at Theatre Row as part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival, where it won Best Audience.
His additional works include ICON: A Night with André Leon Talley, 8:46, ON THE RUN: The Night We Met Beyoncé at Frenchy’s Chicken, sTrapped (commissioned by Human Rights Campaign and The Normal Anomaly for World AIDS Day), The Caregiver, HOOD BOY, and No Ways Tired. His choreopoem works include LUV NO LIMIT/ a luvrz ballad (the second installment in the FOR COLORED BOYZ series), antwan, tha other ameriKKKa, Lalo & Oshun, and This Joy That I Have. He has also written a trio of ten-minute plays: Satin Doll (inspired by Dorian Corey), Worlds Apart, and dis-placed. In 2026, Wilson workshopped LUV NO LIMIT/ a luvrz ballad with Brévo Theatre Company, continuing the development of the choreopoem series.
Wilson is currently developing the musical Black Icarus, inspired by the life and legacy of sculptor Michael Richards, an Afro-Latino artist of Costa Rican and Jamaican descent who perished in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks, and his song cycle Space B’tween the Starz, based on his debut poetry collection.