Haley McGee

Haley McGee is a Canadian actress, writer and comedian based in London.[2] 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 The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale.

Haley McGee
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma materRyerson University (BFA in Theatre Performance - Acting)[1]
OccupationActor
Years active2008–present

The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale

McGee's 2018 solo show invites the audience to value eight objects, each a gift from a former boyfriend.[3] McGee states 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 10, “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. [4][5]

The show was adapted into a book which was published in May 2021 by Penguin Random House Canada[6] and Hodder & Stougton[7] 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. [4]

14 Day Creative Challenge

During the COVID-19 Lockdown of summer 2020, McGee developed and led a 14 Day Creative Challenge, a self-directed programme intended to allow artists to remain creative at a time when venues for creative work remained closed. The programme reached an online audience of over 1000. [8][9]

Works
  • Oh My Irma[10] (2011)
  • Weather the Weather[11] (2013)
  • I'm Doing This for You[12] (2015)
  • The Public Servant[13] (2015)
  • The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale[3] (2018)

References
  1. ""Haley Mcgee"". Stanton Davidson.
  2. "About Haley McGee". Haley McGee.
  3. "The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: can you put a price on sentimental value?". The Guardian. 2018-11-27.
  4. Alcober, Marie (2021-02-12). "What's the price of sentimental value? An artist and a mathematician's formula for the cost of love". CBC Arts.
  5. "The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: can you put a price on sentimental value?". the Guardian. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  6. "Daily Deals: HarperCollins acquires Alex Light's YA novel from Wattpad; Doubleday picks up Haley McGee's The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale".
  7. "The Ex Boyfriend Yard Sale". Foyles.
  8. "'What even is theatre now?': the fringe artists left out in the cold". the Guardian. 2020-05-22. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  9. Sumi, Glenn (2020-06-06). "Meet the brains behind the 14-Day Creative Quarantine Challenge". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  10. "Oh My Irma: An Edinburgh Fringe Review". A Younger Theatre. 2013-08-15.
  11. Lynn Slotkin (2013-12-14). "DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA and WEATHER THE WEATHER". The Slotkin Letter.
  12. Glen Sumi (2017-05-05). "I'm Doing This For You is cause for celebration". Now Toronto.
  13. "The Public Servant". Common Boots Theatre.


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