Kit McKay is an internationally experienced theatre educator, professional stage director, and arts leader with over 25 years of experience inspiring young artists and collaborating with world-class professionals .A champion for student growth beyond the classroom, Kit is proud to have mentored students who now perform on Broadway, in major regional theatres and on TV & film. Her guidance combines conservatory-level training with a holistic, learner-centered approach grounded in the IB ethos.

Currently, Kit serves as an MYP Theatre Teacher at Stamford American International School in Singapore, teaching Grades 6–8. Her curriculum integrates character creation, devising, world puppetry, physical theatre, mask-work, and melodrama through the lens of the MYP framework, ensuring scaffolded, inquiry-driven learning. As an advisor for Grade 8 (and formerly G6), she facilitates CASEL-based SEL units with an emphasis on inclusion, diversity, and belonging. She also supports Field Studies, the Personal Project, and interdisciplinary collaboration, helping students connect their artistic learning to real-world contexts.

In her summers, at Interlochen Arts Camp, Kit McKay serves as Director for the High School Repertory Theatre program, helming the mainstage non-musical production featured as a part of Interlochen’s world-class presenting series. In this role, she guides young artists through an intensive, pre-professional rehearsal process that emphasizes ensemble collaboration, textual rigor, and bold theatrical choices. Her productions are known for their clarity, innovation, and deep student engagement—preparing aspiring actors for collegiate and professional pursuits with both discipline and joy.

Kit’s career as a professional director has been marked by ensemble-based storytelling and a fixation on reinvigorating the classics. Her two stage productions at the Rose Theatre of Omaha were nominated for 7 OEA awards (winning one), 4 TAG awards (winning one) including Best Direction for Tarzan, The Musical. Before her current post, Kit founded and served as the Artistic Director of Parallel 45 Theatre in Michigan, where she directed 13 acclaimed productions, commissioned new works, and launched pioneering education programs like YouthQuake and The Mitten Lab. Under her leadership, Parallel 45 became a regional powerhouse, hiring over 500 artists and building a robust pipeline for emerging talent.

Prior to P45, Kit served as a curator and producer for Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts in New York, where she helped assist in research and selection of all programs including the Performance Series, Solange MacArthur Award, Future Artists Initiative and Commissioning Program. She developed the Incubator Residency Program, which provided essential support to choreographers and performance artists in the late stage development of their work. In her curatorial and programmatic duties she helped herald the works of Doug Elkins, Big Dance Theater, David Neumann, David Dorfman, Yvonne Rainer, Jennifer Tipton, Jack Ferver, Raja Feather Kelly, Wendy Whelan, Okwui Okpokwasili and Zvi Gotheiner among many others.

Across her career, Kit McKay has demonstrated a commitment to student development at every stage of learning. From designing theatre workshops for elementary students through the United States to her mentorship with early career teachers in the Moreland University Teach Now Program, her investment in the next generation of artists and educators has been both expansive and personal—grounded in a belief that creativity, discipline, and belonging are essential to every learner’s journey.