Haley McGee

Haley McGee is a Canadian actress, writer and comedian based in London. McGee is best known for her role as Dorothy Skerritt, the personal assistant to Nikola Tesla in the Doctor Who episode "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror". She is also known for her solo performances, most recently Age Is A Feeling and The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale.

Age Is A Feeling McGee's 2022 show premiered at the Edinburgh Festival and was a winner of the Fringe First Award.

It tells the story of a single human life from the 25th birthday until death. The story is told entirely in the second person and includes sections of branching narrative based on audience selections. The show began its run at Edinburgh on 27 July 2022, and continued at the Soho Theatre in London from 6 September 2022 until 11 March 2023. The piece was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2023.

The Scotsman'''s Fergus Morgan described the show as "a superb performance and a sensitive, smartly structured piece of writing, full of wit and an astonishing amount of wisdom from someone who's only 36 years old." McGee stated that the inspiration for the show was finding herself in debt after moving to London, and needing to work out which objects should be sold in order to pay off her debts.

McGee developed the show in partnership with Melanie Frances, a mathematician and digital artist who helped develop a formula which included inputs such as the "relationship index", measures her time with each ex on a scale of one-to-ten, "how hard they made you laugh, the ratio of fun-to-misery and how good the sex was". McGee reveals how the formula is derived as the show unfolds. and Hodder & Stougton in the UK. McGee. McGee also developed this concept into an audio series, The Cost of Love, an interview format podcast released concurrently with the book.

Works Oh My Irma (2011) Weather the Weather (2013) I'm Doing This for You (2015) The Public Servant (2015) The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale'' (2018)

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