Keir Cooper
  • About
  • PERFORMANCE
    • STAR QUALITY
    • BADASS GRAMMAR
    • REPUBLICA
    • WILD TIME - THEATRE TOUR
    • A SWEET NICHE
    • DON QUIJOTE
    • RITUALS FOR CHANGE
    • LANGUAGE
    • SONGS FOR BREAKING BRITAIN
    • THE CAMPSITE
    • SPECIMEN PREPARATION
    • OTHER WORK IN PERFORMANCE
  • MUSIC
    • STAR QUALITY
    • HEARTY - FILM
    • BOOBS, BANANAS & GUNS
    • REWIRES
    • WIRES
    • RITUALS FOR FILM
    • EYE MUSIC II
    • EYE MUSIC
    • BODIES
    • FREE TIME RADICAL
    • WE HAVE WON
    • HOGELSUND
    • ALL THE NUMERALS
    • YOSSARIAN
    • OTHER MUSIC
  • TEXT
    • WILD TIME - A THEATRICAL NOVEL
    • FICTIONS FOR A MICROSONG CYCLE
    • CREATIVE HANDBOOK
  • VISUAL
    • GRAPHICS
    • SOCIALISM
  • WORKSHOPS
    • Mischief
    • CREATIVE HANDBOOK
    • Sweyne Park Trumps
    • Woodlands Residential
    • Time Machine
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STAR QUALITY is an alt. operatic project for guitar and voice, featuring soprano singer Eleanor Westbrook. Initially debuted as a cinema film and now out on jazz label Discus Music. Click here for more.

CO-AUTHORED NOVEL: WILD TIME is a punk prose revision of Shakespeare, made collaboratively with writer & theatre academic Rose Biggin and available here.

As THEATRE MAKER & PERFORMER, work includes the
award-winning remix of DON QUIJOTE, made in collaboration with Emma Frankland. Part of the British Council Showcase for Drama & Dance, touring to Festival del Tempo in Rio, Brazil.

Co-writer and GUITARIST for jazz/rock bigband A SWEET NICHE, an ongoing collaboration with composer & saxophonist Olly Sellwood. Video album REWIRES available here.

OTHER PROJECTS INCLUDE: a poledance/guitar performance collaboration BADASS GRAMMAR (featuring Live Art veteran Penny Arcade), REPUBLICA, a strip punk flamenco piece looking at Spain’s political history in the 1930s; touring on drums and guitar with rock band YOSSARIAN.
Music for theatre and dance has shown across UK, France, Germany, Indonesia, Canada & Brazil.

As well as known art names, DESIGN HISTORY includes authorship & design of a bespoke book on creativity in schools, poster design for various artists, album designs for the Irene Taylor Trust Music In Prisons and art direction and performative content for the mobile performance venue THE CAMPSITE. Ever more, visual design is integrated into performance work.
Get In Touch  with any questions or projects:
keircooper [at] gmail [dot] com


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Aug. 2nd-24th 2025
No Apologies!
Summerhall, Edinburgh


Aug. 21st 2025
Charlene from Big Data
Album Launch gig

Servant Jazz Quarters, London

Sep. 19th 2024
STAR QUALITY -
Speculations for
Guitar and Voice

Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival
Cockpit Theatre, London






Sep. 20th 2024
HEARTY (FILM)
Cinema Premiere
RichMix, London

Sep. 27th 2024
STAR QUALITY -
Speculations for
Guitar and Voice

Album Release Date (Discus Music)







Sep. 22nd -Nov.11th 2023
HEARTY
Theaterhaus, Mannheim
theaterszene europa
studiobühneköln, Cologne


June 24th 2023
WILD TIME:
A theatrical novel
Shakespeare North, Prescot


Ongoing
BOOBS, BANANAS & GUNS
(WhatsTheBigMistry)
National Justice Museum



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