Kerry McGee is a DC-based theatre artist. She is the Artistic Director and Marketing Director of We Happy Few Productions. Her focuses include ensemble-based work, audience integration, and classical text. Her most recent live project was directing Lovers' Vows with We Happy Few. Elizabeth Inchbald's classical comedy about love, class, and doing the right thing was Helen Hayes Recommended and received nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Kerry latest project is adapting and directing Catherine Louisa Pirkis' Lady Detective, Loveday Brooke, into audio plays.
Kerry created and produces We Happy Few's Classics-in-Action and Hamlet Project series. Classics-in-Action is a series of literature adaptations set in non-traditional spaces and paired with a themed custom cocktail. Hamlet Project is a 5-year project, created to examine Shakespeare's Hamlet from multiple angles and utilizing various art forms. The series will feature one original event a year. During the COVID-19 quarantine, Kerry created an audio drama + extras program for We Happy Few, where the audience receives world-building materials to accompany their audio play, to facilitate the creation of at-home theatrical experiences.
Kerry is a teaching artist at Arena Stage. There she works with Voices of Now, a youth program dedicated to creating a dialogue between performer and community through poetry, movement, and personal stories and with Camp Arena Stage, teaching Shakespeare, the Greeks, and Silent Movie.
She previously worked in Richmond as an actor, director, and producer with numerous companies and received a Richmond Theatre Critic Circle award for A Midsummer Night's Dream (acting), and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (directing). Kerry was also a founder and co-artistic director of Night Light Collective, an east coast-based ensemble theatre company. With NLC, Kerry wrote, directed, and performed in multiple productions.
Kerry has previously taught classes for Imagination Stage, Richmond Shakespeare, The Academy of Music, Moonlight Wings and Drama Kids International. As a graduate student, Kerry taught courses in dramatic literature, performance and speech at Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to classes, she has taught workshops in a variety of subjects all over the United States.
Kerry McGee received her undergraduate degree in Film and Theatre from Central Michigan University, and completed her Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre Pedagogy at Virginia Commonwealth University. While at VCU, Kerry studied Voice and Speech with Janet Rodgers and Dramatic Literature with Dr. Noreen Barnes. Additionally, she has trained internationally with The Dah Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia and with voice specialist and folk singer Frankie Armstrong in Greece.