Marcella Kearns

Marcella Kearns returns to Door Shakespeare after directing 2019’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. A Milwaukee-based multidisciplinary artist, Marcy serves as a director, actor, instructor, dramaturg, and administrator. Selected directing credits include the world premieres of Fighting for Home: Stories of Women Who Serve (Carthage College) and Girls in the Boat (First Stage); classical forays with Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and her conflation of the Wars of the Roses plays (First Stage); and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, and Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities (MCT). She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, a former Fulbright Fellow (Austria), and a 2008 TCG Observership recipient. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of South Carolina.