KAYCEE (SHE/HER) IS A DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, COLLABORATOR, AND ADMINISTRATOR BASED OUT OF NEW ENGLAND.
Kaycee Swierc (she/her) is a director, producer, and collaborator who focuses on new work and revitalized classics as platforms for artistic protest. Kaycee is currently the Special Assistant to the Artistic Director (Diane Paulus) and Executive Team at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. Kaycee will leave A.R.T. in Fall 2023 for the John Wells Fellowship - MFA Directing program at Carnegie Mellon University.
Kaycee, a born and raised Texan, proudly refers to herself as Tex-Mex. She is an alumni of the Humphries School of Musical Theatre, an affiliate of Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS), and she credits this company for giving her a start in "the business."
She is a graduate of the Theatre Program at Texas State University. Although her BFA is in acting, she soon found her true passion to be “behind the table” work through collaboration with the musical theater department on their productions and masterclasses.
She continued her education with a summer at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Royal Shakespeare Company…
Post-graduation, Kaycee began working with The National Women's Theatre Festival (NWTF, formally Women's Theatre Festival WTF). In 2020, she served as the WTF Casting Director, where she cast forty-one plays. She has also served as a Director, Producer, Marketing Director, Teaching Artist, and Keynote Moderator alongside esteemed professionals such as KO, Eden Espinosa, Carson Kreitzer, and many more. Kaycee joined Women's Theatre Festival and Play On Shakespeare as an Associate Producer on OTHELLO. Most notably, Kaycee was a moderator for a special Keynote Conversation with KO and Eden Espinosa about economic transparency and the arts.
In 2020, Kaycee partnered with fellow TXST alum Jeremiah Porter to create JP + KC Productions, a production company dedicated to producing virtual fundraiser cabarets to amplify voices of marginalized groups. The company released four virtual cabarets, featuring Broadway stars, that raised funds for The Shirley Knight Memorial Fund, The Actors Fund, Black Lives Matter, The National Organization for Women and Georgia Stand Up. Each stream collected over 10,000 views and countless engagements.
In the 2020 election run-offs Kaycee sought out ways to use her artistic voice for change. She had the pleasure of serving on the Arts for Biden Harris team where she produced a series entitled "Let's Talk Latino Vote" with celebrities and political minds such as Cristela Alonzo, Diane Guerrero, Dolores C. Huerta, and Jess Morales Rocketto. At the end of 2020, Kaycee partnered with Creatives 4 Change and Georgia Stand Up to raise funds and support for the Senate runoff races in Georgia.
When not in the theater, Kaycee is known for making a mean margarita and an even more ruthless cheese board. She’s constantly quoting cinema classic My Big Fat Greek Wedding and forgetting to blow out her Dolly Parton prayer candle. Kaycee’s cat Finny currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts where he allows Kaycee and her husband to share his apartment.
