Personal info
Known for
Music Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
08 April
Location
Oregon, United States
Edit pageKeegan DeWitt
Biography
Keegan DeWitt (born April 8, 1982) is an American film composer, singer-songwriter, and actor. He was raised in Oregon and now resides in Los Angeles. He is the lead singer of the indie rock band Wild Cub, as well as a composer for film scores.
In 2005 DeWitt composed the score for New York Times Critic's Pick Dance Party USA and in 2007 he scored Quiet City, which was also a NY Times Critic's Pick and Independent Spirit Awards nominee.
In 2013, DeWitt composed the score for the Academy Award-winning documentary short film Inocente, directed by Sean & Andrea Fine (War/Dance). In the same year, he would also attend the Sundance Film Festival with 2 films.
The first, This Is Martin Bonner by Chad Hartigan, was the winner of the NEXT Audience Award, and the second Life According to Sam was produced in conjunction with HBO to air in the fall of '13.
DeWitt premiered two films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival: Unexpected (dir. Kris Swanberg), which was then released on July 24, 2015, in a limited release and through video on demand by The Film Arcade and I'll See You in My Dreams (dir. Brett Haley).
He also premiered his second collaboration with Alex Ross Perry, Queen of Earth, at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival.
In 2016 he composed the soundtrack for the 2017 movie The Hero starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman, and Katharine Ross.
