Career
After graduating from Queen's McKeever worked at BBC Northern Ireland for eight years, initially as a secretary before becoming a researcher. One of the first projects she worked on after quitting her research job was The Wilsons, for BBC Radio Ulster. This was followed by Two Ceasefires and a Wedding, a film made for the BBC by The Hole in the Wall Gang. The resulting television series Give My Head Peace made McKeever a household name in Northern Ireland. She played the character "Emer" for two series.
After leaving Give My Head Peace she was hired by UTV. Here she wrote and produced McKeever, a sketch show. Her first play, Out of The Box, directed by Andrea Montgomery, premiered at the Belfast Festival in October 2005, and subsequently was performed at the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine, at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in April 2006., on tour across Ireland before closing with a week as the first production in the new Belfast Grand Opera House Studio in December 2006. Subsequently McKeever and Montgomery produced It's Not All Rain & Potatoes, a sketch comedy about Ireland for Terra Nova Productions, and Is It Me?, a sitcom for BBC Northern Ireland.
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