Keegan-Michael Key was born in Southfield, Michigan and raised in Detroit. He was adopted as a child by a black father and a white mother. In 1989, he graduated from Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. Key attended the University of Detroit Mercy as an undergraduate and earned his Master of Fine Arts in Theater at Pennsylvania State University. While at The University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta.
Co-founder of the Planet Ant Theater in Hamtramck, Michigan, with Ryan Carlson, Margaret Exner, Joshua Funk, Nancy Hayden, and Mikey Brown.
Attended Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, MI.
He was awarded the 2002 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Revue for "Holy War, Batman! or the Yellow Cab of Courage" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
He was awarded the 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Revue for "Curious George Goes to War" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
He was nominated for a 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Revue for "Pants on Fire" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
He was nominated for a 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Musical for "The Second Citys Romeo & Juliet Musical" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
He is a graduate of the University of Detroit - Mercy (undergraduate) and earned a Master of Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania State University School of Theatre.
A longtime veteran of the Second City comedy troupe, first in his native Detroit and then in the venerated halls of Second City Chicago.
His birth father is African-American and his birth mother is Caucasian. He was adopted as a child. His adoptive parents are also African-American and Caucasian.
Both he and partner Jordan Peele were dramatically featured in a series of comic-photo examples of fictional employees demonstrating "The Saintly Way to Succeed" in a cover story and lengthy article with that title in the March 31, 2013 issue of The New York Magazine.
Along with Jordan Peele , one of Time Magazines 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].
He and comedy partner Jordan Peele made cameos as gangstas in the music video for Weird Al Yankovic s "White & Nerdy".
Played "Luther", President Obamas Anger Translator, at the 2015 White House Correspondents Association Dinner.
He was paternal half-brother to comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie, a face neither was ever aware of while McDuffie was alive.
Our show is not based on huge characters. There are characters in our,show; whether or not they reoccur is based on the audience.
Our goal in life is to get the laughs.
