- Attended Cab Calloway School of the Arts for 7th and 8th grade.
- His older brothers are Matt O'Keefe and Nate O'Keefe of the North Carolina-based indie-folk band Day Action Band. The music of Day Action Band inspired his film "Wrestling" and is based on the first song Day Action Band wrote. Day Action Band contributed five songs and the original score to "Wrestling"
- His sister-in-law is Leah Stewart, the critically-acclaimed author of the novels "Body of a Girl" and "The Myth of You & Me." Leah is married to his older brother, Matt O'Keefe.
- His first industry job as a director was observing director Mike Ockrent and choreographer Susan Stroman on A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden
- Performed at the Candlelight Music Dinner Theater in Arden, Delaware, where both Susan Stroman and Bruce Willis performed at the beginning of their careers
- Studied with Fiona Shaw at the British-American Drama Academy in Oxford, which he attended with Melissa Claire Egan
- Went to A.I. DuPont Middle School in Wilmington, Delaware with Mark Welling and Tom Welling
- Attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Lauren Schneider, Melissa Claire Egan, Marcy Minton, Annie Fair, Michael Bullard and Matt Mercer
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