Keating, Rian

Rian Keating came to New York City the day after graduating from a small regional high school in New Hampshire and he’s never looked back. Pursuing a career in the arts, he hosted the cable television show Spotlight interviewing, among others, Gwen Verdon, George Rose, Charlie Sheen and Cleavon Little. In regional theater he has directed Gypsy, She Loves Me, Wit and Lettice and Lovage. He currently teaches educational theater for the New York City Board of Education and sings regularly at Don’t Tell Mama.


Elected 2007. Dropped, returned, dropped in 2023.