Keegan-Michael Key, Elle Key & Their Bigger Picture Media Group Banner Sign With CAA
EXCLUSIVE: Keegan-Michael Key, his multi-hyphenate partner Elle Key, and their Bigger Picture Media Group banner have signed with CAA.
An Emmy, Peabody, and Webby Award-winning actor, writer, and producer, Keegan-Michael Key is perhaps best known for co-creating and starring opposite Jordan Peele on Comedy Central’s Emmy-winning sketch series Key & Peele. Recently, he’s been seen starring in Apple TV+’s acclaimed musical comedy series Schmigadoon!; Illumination and Nintendo’s smash hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie; holiday hit Wonka, opposite Timothée Chalamet; and John Krasinski’s IF, alongside Ryan Reynolds.
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Next up, Key will be seen in Amazon MGM Studios’ crime thriller Play Dirty from Shane Black, and the Farrelly brothers’ Paramount Christmas comedy Dear Santa alongside Jack Black. He’s also the voice of Bumblebee in the upcoming animated film Transformers One.
Additional credits for Key include Hulu’s Reboot, created by Steven Levitan; Judd Apatow’s ensemble comedy The Bubble; Disney’s The Lion King and Toy Story 4; Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name, Migration, Hotel Transylvania 2, 3, and 4, The Lego Movie, and The Angry Birds Movie.
An award-winning director, writer and producer of film, television, and commercials, Elle Key spent her early years working off-Broadway with theater companies such as Malaparte, Naked Angels, and the Atlantic before producing indies like Nanette Burstein’s Sundance prize-winning documentary American Teen, as well as August with Josh Hartnett, Adam Scott, Naomi Harris, and David Bowie.
Elle also served as second unit producer on Doug Liman’s Fair Game, with Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, and has helmed numerous national commercial campaigns, as well as several projects for the NFL, the Pro Bowl, the Peabody Awards, and the Gotham Awards. In 2017, she was the first female head writer for The NFL Honors, and she returned to write for and produce the 2024 show. Additionally, she is a member of the Creative Coalition, and Women in Film, and is on the Leadership Council for RFK Human Rights.
As the co-president and founder of Bigger Picture Media Group, Elle has been writing and directing with, and for, her partner Keegan-Michael Key for almost a decade, including on the original Audible series The History of Sketch Comedy hosted by Keegan-Michael and written by Elle, which won her a Webby Award for Best Writing.
Last year, the Bigger Picture duo turned an award-winning podcast concept into a book, co-writing The History of Sketch Comedy, which became an acclaimed bestseller, landing a spot on Best Books of 2023 lists from Barnes & Noble. Under Bigger Picture Media, they’ve executive produced CBS’s Game On! and National Geographic’s Brain Games, both hosted by Key, and are currently developing numerous projects across film and television, both narrative and unscripted.
Key and Bigger Picture Media Group continue to be represented by Range Media Partners, Brecheen Feldman Breimer, and Viewpoint.
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