Kit McKay is a stage director, curator, and producer who has spent the last seven years bringing professional artists from across the country and around the world to northern Michigan as the co-founder of Parallel 45 Theatre, creating immersive, cutting-edge theatrical experiences. At Parallel 45, she directed A Christmas Carol in Prose, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” (30 Plays in 60 Minutes), Shakespeare’s R&J, Metamorphoses and Our Town. Kit attended Interlochen Arts Academy, Sarah Lawrence College, and Northwestern University’s Master of Fine Arts directing program, where she had the good fortune to work closely with such artists as Anna D. Shapiro, Mary Zimmerman and Jessica Thebus at Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Upon her master’s graduation, she studied at the Yale School of Drama masters program in theatre management and worked as a Yale Fellow at Seattle Repertory Theatre. She spent 7 years as a curator and producer for LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts, a New York City organization, where she helped herald the Incubator program, a late-stage technical residency for choreographers and performance artists. Her recent two stage productions at the Rose Theatre of Omaha have been nominated for 7 OEA awards (winning one), 4 TAG awards (winning one) including Best Direction for Tarzan. She directed the Intermediate Repertory and/or Musical Productions at Interlochen Arts Camp for ten summers. As Producing Artistic Director of Parallel 45 Theatre, she is currently focused on the creation and restructuring of a summer-based, rotating-rep model for bold new works, innovative adaptations and reimagined classic plays.

Summer position. Directed the Intermediate Repertory or Intermediate Musical Production for 10 years.