Keith Powell

Keith Powell is an American actor, writer, director and web series creator who was born in Philadelphia and trained at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2001. He became known for playing Toofer Spurlock on 30 Rock. He has worked in theater as an actor and director, including a stint as producing artistic director of the Contemporary Stage Company in Wilmington, Delaware. In 2008 he launched the web series Keith Powell Directs a Play. In 2015 he was the creator, writer, director and star of the web series Keith Broke His Leg, which won him several Indie Series Awards in 2016. His screen work includes About a Boy, The Newsroom and the films Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and My Name Is David. He began directing television in 2018 with an episode of Superstore and has since directed Dickinson, Single Drunk Female, Interview with the Vampire and So Help Me Todd.