Kristin (Kiki) McCalley is an actor, director, producer and devising-artist, with over a decade of experience in both Nashville and New York City. McCalley holds a BFA in Theatre from Belmont University and has worked with companies such as Nashville Children’s Theatre, Nashville Rep, Blackbird Theatre, Playhouse Nashville, Actor’s Bridge, Spaghetti Theatre, The Verge, and Chicago Talking Machine Co. While in Nashville she studied under renowned acting coach, Corey Parker and in New York City trained with Rachel Chavkin’s “The Team”, Moisés Kaufman’s “Tectonic Theater”, and the UK physical devising company “Frantic Assembly”. McCalley has also worked with the Ingram New Works Festival as an actor and producer, a new play development program hosting playwrights such as Sarah Ruhl, Donald Margulies, John Patrick Shanley, Christopher Durang, and David Auburn. Her most recent directorial work includes the sold out Dance Nation by Clare Barron in Stamford, New York, the Nashville premiere of the Pulitzer prize-winning play “Ironbound” by Martyna Majok, “Airswimming” by Charlotte Jones, and several unique site-specific immersive productions, “Microcosm”. In 2018, McCalley launched her theater company, The Party, with an ensemble-devised production of Charles Mee’s “Big Love”, which Jeff Ellis at Broadway World called, “the most talked about production of 2018 to date. Without danger of fulsome exaggeration, one of the most provocative shows you’re likely to see this year in Nashville…” Some of McCalley’s previous roles as an actor have included “Proof” (Catherine), “Big Love” (Lydia), “Rumors” (Chris Gorman), “The Nina Variations” (Nina), “Nerve” (Susan), “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (Ophelia), “Eurydice” (Eurydice), “The Outsiders” (Sandy).