Sean Keenehan is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated television producer and writer whose work has appeared on PBS, CNBC, NBC and AMC, as well as internationally in the South Korean publication KOREA Magazine.
Currently working as a television producer and writer at WTTW-11/PBS on the upcoming documentary “Chicago Mysteries” with Geoffrey Baer, Keenehan has worked on an array of projects at WTTW over the years, including the national PBS series “10 That Changed America,” the nightly news magazine show “Chicago Tonight,” the children’s animation series “Nature Cat” and the local documentary series “Chicago Stories,” which earned him a 2021 Midwest Emmy nomination for an episode titled “The Great Chicago Fire.” Also at WTTW, Keenehan wore two hats as an associate producer and web producer for the Peter Lisagor Award-winning multi-platform series Urban Nature, where he wrote and produced more than two dozen web stories to correspond with each individual video segment.
Keenehan spent three seasons as an associate producer and writer/producer at Bill Kurtis Productions for the CNBC prime-time documentary news series “American Greed,” and the 2020 spinoff series “American Greed: Biggest Cons,” then made the leap to a co-producer and writer/producer in 2022. In addition, Keenehan co-produced a crossover project in 2022 between “American Greed” and the AMC/Sony Pictures hit series “Better Call Saul” titled “American Greed: James McGill” as a teaser for the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul.”
An alumnus of the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago, Keenehan completed a BA in Communication Studies, magna cum laude, in December 2013 and returned to the university in fall 2022 as an adjunct faculty member to teach multi-media journalism courses.
Keenehan is also an accomplished musician and music teacher, and resides on Chicago’s Northwest Side, where he has also worked as a reporter and editorial assistant at Nadig Newspapers for the Press and Reporter newspapers.