Brooke Keesling

Brooke Keesling currently serves as the Head of Animation Talent Development at Bento Box Entertainment LLC since November 2019. Keesling is an active member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, contributing to the Short Films and Feature Animation and Children's Programming and Animation branches, respectively. Keesling has been an instructor in the Character Animation department at the California Institute of the Arts since September 2010 and holds the position of Vice President at ASIFA Hollywood since April 2012. Previous experience includes roles at The Animation Guild, Disney Television Animation, Cartoon Network, New Deal Studios, and the College for Creative Studies as an Associate Professor of Animation. Keesling earned an MFA in Animation from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Art History and Natural Science Illustration from the University of California, Santa Cruz.