Before uncovering my more provocative talents, I spent most of my adult life as Spencer
Keasey, an educator, first as a high school English teacher in the Pittsburgh Public
Schools and eventually as a grant coordinator and consultant to Vermont DOE. Since
then, I have become more widely recognized as an International Award Winning Adult
Performer under my pseudonym, Spencer Quest (including Best Non-European Actor,
2006 David Awards, Men Magazine’s 2006 #4 Top Performer, Best Supporting Actor,
2007 GAYVN, 2006 Performer of the Year, Hard Choice Awards.) For a glimpse at this
exposed side of me, check out the following photo album: WarningXXX
I’ve been trying to live a creative life for many years now, every so often leaving the 9-5
job to try my hand at this or that. In 1996, after leaving the teaching profession, I taught
myself how to paint. Until then, my creative talents focused mostly on acting and on
singing. I discovered a new talent and began doing watercolor commissions for
members of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association where I actual did my painting. After
leaving teaching, I had taken a desk job checking people into the athletic facilities of the
PAA during the mornings; it was here I learned how to paint and where I continued to
get commissions. For samples, please enjoy the following album: Art. Among the more
notable commissions were for George Romero (Horror master) and for Fred Rogers
(yes, Mr. Rogers). I did dozens of paintings but eventually ambition took me from my
desk job to the job of Athletic Director; my painting slowed down. But I then
rediscovered my passion for singing and started working with local famed Jazz pianist,
John Hughes, singing jazz on Friday nights in the PAA’s “Grill Room.” It was also during
this time I was renovating a Victorian home my former partner, poet Larry Bradley, and I
owned in Shadyside. I again had taught myself to do all the renovations myself from the
wiring to the plumbing to the finishing work. It was during these years I convinced
myself that if you could read, you could teach yourself how to do just about anything.
Eventually Larry and I left Pittsburgh and moved to Northern Vermont in the hopes of
continuing to live a creative life. After not working a steady job for a couple of years,
however, with savings dwindling and my prospects of making a living off of painting
growing slim, I found myself searching for security. I landed in the field of education. I
stayed there, involved in supplemental federal grants, for 4 years until I again chose to
shake up my life and leave Vermont. That decision, which included entering the world
of adult entertainment, was partly an attempt to sabotage my tendency to seek security
in a 9-5 job. Who’s going to hire an ex-porn star?
For almost 4 years now I have been trying to redefine myself as an individual. A creative
individual. I have my ups and downs but am still at it.
This summer’s upcoming production of 2 Boys in Bed on a Cold Winter’s Night is my
debut into Provincetown theater. My last professional performance was in NYC’s Off-
Broadway production of Naked Boys Singing in 2006. While I am now happy to call
Provincetown home, I am still trying to find my way amongst my various skills and
creative talents. I’m thankful to be getting back into theater. I now just need to start
singing again. I’m a Lounge Lizard at heart, so I truly miss the opportunity to croon.
For updates, news, and readings, please check out and subscribe to my blog!
Thanks,
Spence
Keasey, an educator, first as a high school English teacher in the Pittsburgh Public
Schools and eventually as a grant coordinator and consultant to Vermont DOE. Since
then, I have become more widely recognized as an International Award Winning Adult
Performer under my pseudonym, Spencer Quest (including Best Non-European Actor,
2006 David Awards, Men Magazine’s 2006 #4 Top Performer, Best Supporting Actor,
2007 GAYVN, 2006 Performer of the Year, Hard Choice Awards.) For a glimpse at this
exposed side of me, check out the following photo album: WarningXXX
I’ve been trying to live a creative life for many years now, every so often leaving the 9-5
job to try my hand at this or that. In 1996, after leaving the teaching profession, I taught
myself how to paint. Until then, my creative talents focused mostly on acting and on
singing. I discovered a new talent and began doing watercolor commissions for
members of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association where I actual did my painting. After
leaving teaching, I had taken a desk job checking people into the athletic facilities of the
PAA during the mornings; it was here I learned how to paint and where I continued to
get commissions. For samples, please enjoy the following album: Art. Among the more
notable commissions were for George Romero (Horror master) and for Fred Rogers
(yes, Mr. Rogers). I did dozens of paintings but eventually ambition took me from my
desk job to the job of Athletic Director; my painting slowed down. But I then
rediscovered my passion for singing and started working with local famed Jazz pianist,
John Hughes, singing jazz on Friday nights in the PAA’s “Grill Room.” It was also during
this time I was renovating a Victorian home my former partner, poet Larry Bradley, and I
owned in Shadyside. I again had taught myself to do all the renovations myself from the
wiring to the plumbing to the finishing work. It was during these years I convinced
myself that if you could read, you could teach yourself how to do just about anything.
Eventually Larry and I left Pittsburgh and moved to Northern Vermont in the hopes of
continuing to live a creative life. After not working a steady job for a couple of years,
however, with savings dwindling and my prospects of making a living off of painting
growing slim, I found myself searching for security. I landed in the field of education. I
stayed there, involved in supplemental federal grants, for 4 years until I again chose to
shake up my life and leave Vermont. That decision, which included entering the world
of adult entertainment, was partly an attempt to sabotage my tendency to seek security
in a 9-5 job. Who’s going to hire an ex-porn star?
For almost 4 years now I have been trying to redefine myself as an individual. A creative
individual. I have my ups and downs but am still at it.
This summer’s upcoming production of 2 Boys in Bed on a Cold Winter’s Night is my
debut into Provincetown theater. My last professional performance was in NYC’s Off-
Broadway production of Naked Boys Singing in 2006. While I am now happy to call
Provincetown home, I am still trying to find my way amongst my various skills and
creative talents. I’m thankful to be getting back into theater. I now just need to start
singing again. I’m a Lounge Lizard at heart, so I truly miss the opportunity to croon.
For updates, news, and readings, please check out and subscribe to my blog!
Thanks,
Spence
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