Kerry McGee is a DC-based director, actor, playwright, and choreographer. 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 has also served as the creator of We Happy Few's interactive audio play experience, a series created during the pandemic to bring theatre experiences directly to people's homes. She is the adapter, director, and creator of the Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective audio experiences. She serves as the Artistic Director for We Happy Few.
Notable acting credits include Charlie Chaplin in Pointless Theatre's Visions of Love, Edgar Allan Poe in We Happy Few's A Midnight Dreary, and multiple roles in Dracula, Pericles, and A Winter's Tale, also from We Happy Few. As a conspirator with dog & pony DC, Kerry also appeared in and helped create Beertown in DC, Peepshow, and Toast.
With an extensive background in Professional Wrestling, Kerry has served as fight choreographer for the wrestling sequences in Adventure Theatre's Luchadora and We Happy Few's Pericles. She is also proud to have directed The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, VA, which went on to win awards for Best Fight Choreography and Best Ensemble, and nominations for Best Director and Best Play.
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.