
Penelope
Book By
Grace McLean
Grace McLean (she/her) is a performer, writer, composer. In addition to performing on Broadway (Suffs; Bad Cinderella; Natasha, Pierre….), Off-Broadway and Regionally (MCC, LCT3, The Public, Vineyard, La MaMa, BAM, Weston Playhouse, ART, WTF) and TV (The First Lady [Showtime], The Other Two [HBOMax]) she also writes and composes for theater (Penelope; Lunar Eclipse; The Apiary; In The Green, Richard Rodgers, Lortel Awards) and film (Marina, Gotham Award; The Photographer; Our Mine, Best Score Brooklyn Film Festival, Black Bear Award for Best Score Athens International Film Festival). She toured Pakistan and Russia as an artistic ambassador with the US State Department and released her first full length album My Lovely Enemy May 2024 with Rolling Stone calling her “avant-garde” tracks “brilliant”. Lincoln Center Writer-in-residence, Vivace Award (’23), Larson Grant (’21), Broadway Women’s Fund’s Woman to Watch (‘21), Civilians R&D Group (‘19-’20), MacDowell Fellow (‘18), Lincoln Center Emerging Artist (‘17). www.gracemclean.com
Photo by Shervin Lainez.