Keneally works in NYC producing broadway shows and has one son who also is a SU grad. She was most recently represented on Broadway by GOOD VIBRATIONS the musical featuring the music of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Ms Keneally was both the orginator and lead producer of this project.
Prior to that, she co-produced the Tony-winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry, author of the Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winning Driving Miss Daisy. With Jane Harmon, she co-produced 1996's five-time Tony nominated production of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Buried Child directed by Gary Sinise.
Ms. Keneally and Ms. Harmon led the producing team for Driving Miss Daisy in New York, directed by Ron Lagomarsino, starring Morgan Freeman and Dana Ivey, and subsequently with Tony Award winner Frances Sternhagen and Earle Hyman. They also produced two National Tours of Driving Miss Daisy, one starring five-time Tony Award winner Julie Harris and Brock Peters; the other starring Rosemary Prinz and Ted Lange; and they oversaw the London production starring Dame Wendy Hiller. International productions followed in Scandinavia, Canada, Israel, China, Japan and South Africa.
Ms. Keneally and Ms. Harmon, along with Paul Simon, Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, co-produced the critically acclaimed Broadway production of the South African drama Asinamali! written and directed by Mbongeni Ngema. They also developed such projects as The Substance of Fire by Jon Robin Baitz directed by Dan Sullivan (with Playwrights' Horizons); Dividing the Estate by Pulitzer Prize winner Horton Foote and directed by Gerald Freeman; and the Los Angeles production of Mel Shapiro's The Lay of the Land starring Dudley Moore. They co-produced Beloved Friend with Roger Stevens of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Prior to her partnership with Ms. Harmon, Ms. Keneally was a stage manager, production secretary and assistant to the producer or director on several Broadway productions including Sophisticated Ladies with Gregory Hines and Judith Jamison, The Mooney Shapiro Songbook directed by the British filmmaker Jonathan Lynn and featuring Jeff Goldblum and Swing starring Sheryl Lee Ralph and John Goodman. She was also the production assistant of the video of Bob Fosse's Pippin starring Ben Vereen and Chita Rivera.
Ms. Keneally was the Managing Director of Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theatre Lab at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard in Cambridge, MA. She has served on the Board of the Obie-awarding organization The New Group. She served as Secretary on the Board of New York Stage and Film for twelve years and is the past President of the Board of Connecticut Heritage Productions. Ms. Keneally has been a member of the League of American Theatres and Producers and has served on the Board of Directors of the Off-Broadway League of Producers.Ms. Keneally is currently developing TRANSPORT, a play with music by the acclaimed Australian author Thomas Keneally (SCHINDLER'S LIST) with music bt Larry Kirwan, founder of the iconic band BLACK 47. A workshop will be presented at the Irish Arts Center in April-May 2010.
Ms. Keneally is also a Drug and Alcohol Recovery Counselor and currently serves as the Co-Vice President of the Syracuse University Alumni Board.
She is married to Kenneth Keneally and they have two sons: Zebadiah (magna cum laude SU SVA ‘07) and Elias (School of Visual Arts, ‘09) who are a visual artists and a photographer respectively.
