Caroline McGee
New York City, New York
Caroline McGee is a performing arts educator with deep roots to the professional New York and international theatre & film community. She trained with Bobby Lewis (Yale Drama), Elaine Aiken, William Esper, Wynn Handman, Michael Howard, Stelle Adler, and Jean-Pierre Vincent in France. Theatre work includes the Sarajevo & Dubrovnik Festivals, NY Shakespeare, Yale Rep, Williamstown & Berkshire Festivals, Opera Theater of St. Louis, PS 122, The Ohio, Soho Rep, and film work with Norman Jewison, Woody Allen, Gena Rowlands, Gregory Peck & John Jacob Berger.
During the past two decades, McGee has collaborated in new work with Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Alice Farley, Liz Diamond, Dmitry Troyanovsky, Dodi di Santo, Marius von Mayenberg, Lasha Bughadze. Recently, “Woman Bomb/Sade,” with Ivana Sajko, won Best Acting in Omar Sangare’s United International Festival.
As Director/Producer/Professor of Acting at The Lee Strasberg Institute and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she founded the New Music Theatre Festival with the NYU Tisch Graduate Music Writing Program and new plays by Robert Auletta, Saviana Stanescu and the Presnyakov Brothers. McGee directed the MFA Acting Program at Catholic University, Gitta Honegger, Chair, and is currently Program Director of NewGeneRussian, whose teachers received their master’s at the legendary Moscow Art Theatre School. Also, she teaches acting for film and TV at Pace University, NY Conservatory for Dramatic Art and NYFA.
Caroline serves on the New York State Council of the Arts and her articles and reviews appear in Western European Stages and Slavic & Eastern European Performance. She holds advanced degrees from Yale School of Drama and UC Berkeley, and a professional acting degree from the National Conservatory, France.