As a teenager, Keenan-Bolger was in the original 2000 cast of
Seussical on Broadway, as an alternate Jojo. He made his Broadway debut in the mid-1990s as Chip in
Beauty and the Beast, and appeared Off-Broadway in the 1999 return engagement of
A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden as Young Scrooge. The actor was featured in the first national tours of
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as Leaf Coneybear,
Ragtime as the Little Boy, and
How the Grinch Stole Christmas as Young Max. Other theater credits include
High School Musical on Stage! at
North Shore Music Theatre and
Perez Hilton Saves the Universe at the 2008
Fringe Festival. He has also been seen on television as Christophe on the series
The Naked Brothers Band and as a weekly commentator on
FNMTV on
MTV. His film credits include
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas and
Marci X. Keenan-Bolger created a video blog to promote
North Shore Music Theatre's production of
High School Musical in which he starred. Keenan-Bolger was a regular on fellow web series ''The Battery's Down''. He is noted for his performance of the song 'You're in Vegas' which is available for download on
iTunes. In 2010, Keenan-Bolger co-created the web series
Submissions Only with fellow Broadway performer
Kate Wetherhead. He serves as the series' director and editor. On October 12, 2010, he took over the role of Robertson Ay in the Broadway production of Disney's
Mary Poppins and later played the part on the National tour. He created the role of Omar in the
5th Avenue Theater production of Disney's
Aladdin (July 2011) and played Crutchie in Disney's
Newsies (March 2012), a role he originally created at the
Paper Mill Playhouse (September 2011). His last performance date as Crutchie was on March 11, 2013, so he could begin rehearsal for his role in the musical adaptation of
Tuck Everlasting. He was supposed to star as Jesse Tuck, with performances beginning on July 28, 2013, at Boston's
Colonial Theatre, but the show was delayed due to the lack of availability of a suitable theatre for its subsequent transfer to New York. He next performed in
A.R. Gurney's drama
Family Furniture, which ran from November 12 to December 22, 2013, at
The Flea Theater in the
TriBeCa section of New York City. He played the part of Billy Frazier in the 2014 romantic comedy film
The Rewrite, starring
Hugh Grant and
Marisa Tomei. He revisited the role of Jesse Tuck in the
Broadway production of
Tuck Everlasting which opened on April 26, 2016, and ran until May 29, 2016. On May 23, 2017, Bolger revisited his role of Crutchie in the live-on-stage
Newsies musical film. ==Personal life==