Jillian Keiley - teaching artist in the Directing Program

Jillian Keiley is a theatre director from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 1995, Keiley became the founding artistic director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland. From 2012 to 2022, Keiley served as the artistic director for English Theatre at Canada's National Arts Centre.

For Artistic Fraud, Keiley has directed The Cheat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Burial Practices, Under Wraps, Salvage: The Story of a House, Icycle, Oil and Water, In Your Dreams, Freud, Afterimage, Fear of Flight, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and Between Breaths. In 2002, Keiley directed Tempting Providence, Chafe's play which was commissioned and premiered by Theatre Newfoundland Labrador (TNL). The show was created for TNL's Gros Morne Theatre Festival, and it toured consistently from 2003–2014. 

Keiley became the artistic director of the National Arts Centre English Theatre in 2012. There, she directed Metamorphoses, Alice Through the Looking-Glass (with Stratford Festival), Tartuffe (adapted by Andy Jones) and Twelfth Night (January 2016). Keiley left the National Arts Centre in 2022 after introduction of a co-curation company in residence reduced the scope of her role.

For the Stratford Festival, she directed Alice through the Looking Glass (2014), The Diary of Anne Frank (2015), and As You Like It (2016), and The Neverending Story (2019).