Biography of Keith Snyder,
Author of Show Control

Last update: August 3, 1996

Author Keith Snyder is a composer and principal talent at Woolly Mammoth Multimedia, a company which creates sound, music, publications, web pages, illustrations, and other materials for such companies as Ernst & Young, Avery Dennison, Symantec, USC, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Show Control, from Write Way Publishing, is Keith's first mystery novel. It is the story of Jason Keltner, an electronic musician in Pasadena, California who looks into the onstage death of Monica Gleason, a performance artist. They meet at a yearly arts and technology convention, where Jason talks Monica out of her stage fright and onto the stage. During her show, she is killed by one of her own stage lasers. Recovering from his divorce and in need of a mission, and with the help of his friends (Robert Goldstein, an actor, and Martin Altamirano, an artist), his home studio, and a mysterious online stranger, Jason neglects his day job and sets out to find the killer.

Keith's articles are regular features of AfterTouch magazine, for which he also designs the front cover, and his short fiction has appeared in Writers' Workshop Review.

Session 52, a short film which Keith produced and scored, was selected for screening at the 1993 New Orleans Film Festival and the 1994 Bombay International Film Festival. Lady's Man, another film by the same team, is now in post-production.

As the keyboardist for the Afropop and reggae band Kadara for more than three years, Keith performed often at L.A. World Beat venues such as the Music Machine, Po Na Na Souk, and Cafe Largo. He is currently composing music for a Symantec Corporation multimedia CD-ROM. Perseids, his first solo album, is a CMC Top-Ten album, and was featured in Keyboard magazine. Keith has performed with Nigerian music star Chief Ebenezer Obey and was computer/audio technician on the soundtrack album of Jekyll and Hyde, a major Broadway musical.

A frequent contributor to the Performing Artists Network (PAN Network), Keith attends animation festivals, technology shows, and Afropop concerts. Current projects include writing the sequel to Show Control (entitled Coffin's Got The Dead Guy On The Inside); pre-production of an 8-minute funny detective film called 1 is for Gun; performance with spoken word and acoustic/electronic music group The Cosmic Debris; and recording an album featuring his fiancee, operatic mezzo-soprano Kathleen Haaversen.

Keith lives in Venice, California, with his fiancee and a small, dapper black cat with a white shirtfront.