{"id":5624,"date":"2022-04-27T14:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.themnific.com\/burbank\/?page_id=5624"},"modified":"2026-01-21T03:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:17:28","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philippe.actor\/?page_id=5624","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Philippe \"Keb\" Blanchard<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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PHILIPPE (n\u00e9 Blanchard) is a Montreal-born American actor, screenplay writer and New York theater artist (dramaturg, director and independent producer). He is the 2010 recipient of the Theater for the New City\u2019s Crysalis Award for his play, Tsunami \u00e0 la Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise.<\/p>

Working in several Manhattan \u201cdowntown\u201d venues, his work has been described as a \u201cmiraculous mirage,\u201d \u201cpowerful\u201d and \u201cextremely enjoyable\u201d as well as \u201cfierce, passionate and outrageous.\u201d Inside New York has described his acting as \u201cstandout\u201d and OffOffOnline has said that he could be \u201cimposing, cruel, suave, disarmingly charming and decidedly theatrical.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Early Years: Sound Engineer and Acting Training<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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After working for ten years as a live concert soundman, recording engineer and post-production sound editor for TV shows, he moves to New York City where he attends the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute (1999-2003), receiving his acting training from teachers Irma Sandrey, Robert Castle, Mauricio Bustamante, Hope Arthur, Joyce Sarandon and Dan Grimaldi. He then follows renowned Artistic Director Robert Castle at his newly established International Theater New York Company for two more years. He starts working as an actor and Method Acting coach immediately upon completing his training.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Theater and Translation-Adaptation\n<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Artistically supported and encouraged by Caffe Cino legendary Off-Off Broadway Director Ted Mornel<\/a>, Philippe begins to write in 2003. Drawing first from his Quebecois roots, he translates and adapts Denys Arcand’s Decline of the American Empire with Arcand\u2019s permission, and then produces it at the Gene Frankel Theater (October 2004). He also plays the role of Mario in that play. His own award-winning Tsunami \u00e0 la Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise, written in 2005, is produced at Theater for the New City in 2010.<\/p>

In 2011, he translates Montreal playwright Etienne Lepage\u2019s L’enclos de L’elephant (The Elephant Pen), which is produced by Theater for the New City in June 2016. And in 2012, after seeing another of Lepage\u2019s work, Rouge Gueule, first translated by playwright Chantal Bilodeau and read at the LARK, he creates his own, harder and more Americanized adaptation and translation of the same work. That version, produced in April 2013 by Theater for the New City, becomes the much-acclaimed play Bite your Tongue<\/a>.<\/p>

Philippe has also translated three American plays to be produced in French-speaking Quebec: Lanford Wilson\u2019s Burn This (2009), Sheila Callaghan\u2019s That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play (2016) and Charles L. Mee\u2019s Big Love (2016). In 2021, he completes a Master\u2019s Degree in Translation and Intercultural Theater Semiotics<\/a> at UQAM \u2013 University of Quebec at Montreal\u2019s \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure de Th\u00e9\u00e2tre. In 2024, he publishes his first book translation, The Little Red Book from author Michel Dorais, PhD.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sitting in the writers room since the earliest days (2008) of the late New York Director Shawn Regruto’s<\/a> TriBeCa Writers Group, Philippe has studied screenplay writing techniques extensively, and read, helped re-write and given notes on hundreds of screenplays and other writing projects. He has also written his own, several short films and three feature screenplays, all in development.<\/p>

In 2014, he Story-Edited and Script-Doctored Director Ari Taub\u2019s most recent feature film, 79-Parts<\/a>. For that work, he was granted his first \u201cabove-the-line\u201d writing credit<\/a> (as Philippe Keb Blanchard). The film won \u201cBest Film Audience Choice\u201d at the SoHo International Film Festival.<\/p>

His current projects center around writing and pitching original screenplays (both feature films and TV series), as well as the adaptation of existing foreign material for the US market.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Personal<\/h2>

He is best friends with his ex-wife, with whom he has a daughter.<\/p>

Union Affiliation<\/h4>

SAG-AFTRA (USA and Europe)
UdA (Canada)<\/p>

Body type<\/h4>

Philippe is a very tall, athletic man (6\u20195\u201d) at approximately 200 pounds, which makes him look more \u201ctall\/slender\u201d than \u201clarge\u201d. He also has broad shoulders and long arms, even as his chest is probably around 43. For that reason, he tends to buy his clothes a little larger, otherwise the sleeves are often too short. For reference, he buys Abercrombie & Fitch \u201cMuscle XXL\u201d shirts, which fit him perfectly.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Measurements<\/h2>

Items<\/strong> & Measurement
Height<\/strong> 6’5″
Weight<\/strong> 200 lbs
Eyes<\/strong> Dark Brown
Hair<\/strong> Salt & pepper
Waist<\/strong> 34
Hip<\/strong> 39
Inseam<\/strong> 35
Pants length<\/strong> 36
Neck<\/strong> 19
Jacket<\/strong> 48\/58 L \/ XXL
Shoe<\/strong> 13 Wide
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