Jeffrey James Keyes

co-authored the New York Times bestseller Killer Chef with James Patterson. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Playwriting Program, his plays have been developed or featured at SoHo Playhouse, the Old Vic/Old Vic New Voices, 59E59, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Laguna Beach High School, Rogue Machine Theatre and the Prologue Theatre. He additionally contributes travel and lifestyle features for Metrosource Magazine, Passport Magazine, and ManAboutWorld, Q Digital. Jeffrey additionally writes/produces short films and has recently started working in Virtual Reality. He is a recipient of the Artists’ Patron Fund’s 2019 Gold Award and wrote the script for Digital Arrest, which took the top prize in the Creative Technology category at the NYC Media Lab 2019 Demo Expo. Most recently he was awarded the inaugural PEN America L’Engle Rahman Prize for Mentorship. He is currently co-writing the new television pilot Cream City with Matt W. Cody. The script has already placed in a number of festivals including winner of the Niagara Falls International Short Film Festival, Finalist for the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Spring 2022 Lab, honorable mention in Screenplay Festival, and Semi-Finalist in the Stage 32 Television Drama Writing Contest, Big Apple Film Festival, Calgary Independent Film Festival, Florida Shorts, Boston Screenplay Awards, Rotterdam Independent Film Festival, Stockholm Short Festival, Phoenix Shorts as well as a “Second Rounder” for the Austin Film Festival in 2021. His short Christmas will be part of the 2022 Fresh Fruit Monologues Project.

KILLER CHEF

Eat, drink, and be murdered.
Someone is poisoning diners in New Orleans’ best restaurants. Now it’s up to chef and homicide cop Caleb Rooney to catch a killer–who has an appetite for revenge.

Co-authored with James Patterson for Hachette Book Group and Little, Brown and Company. 

Read an excerpt here