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Kaylee Harwood is an award-winning performer, director and arts educator whose work spans from the Stratford & Shaw Festivals to Broadway, National Tours & Radio City Music Hall.

Kaylee has tread the boards at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Citadel, The Grand, Arts Club and the Niagara Symphony Orchestra. She appeared as Mrs. Claus in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes and toured North America for two years on the 1st & 2nd National Tours of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Recently, she starred as Jenna in Waitress (Capitol Theatre) and Kate/Lilli in Kiss Me, Kate (Drayton), appeared in Life After (Yonge Street Theatricals, Dora Award nomination) and Titaníque (Mirvish/Segal). She directed UnCovered: U2 & The Rolling Stones, directed/produced the independent miniseries The Dressing Room, and was nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding Direction for ReTold (Musical Stage Company). Kaylee’s appearance as Carole King (Stage West) garnered a Calgary Theatre Critics’ Award nomination and a Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Lead Performance.

“Kaylee Harwood shows us all of her vocal colours, from her polished soprano… to an aggressive (gorgeous) belt in the second act.”
— Taylor Long, BroadwayWorld

On screen, Kaylee has appeared in Christmas Movie Magic, Luckiest Girl Alive, Star Trek, Mayday, Reign, Workin' Moms and Good Witch, as well as live performances on America's Got Talent, The Tony Awards, The View and Dancing With the Stars, and several national commercials. She is featured in Catalyst Theatre’s live and filmed versions of The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare, in addition to the original cast recording. She hosted and produced a sold-out fundraiser in Toronto for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS & The Actors Fund and has been featured on several podcasts (Cue to Cue, Let's Grab Coffee and PlayMe), in addition to the MCU & Me! Podcast she hosts with her partner, Sayer. Kaylee recently voiced Else Gebel in the audiobook The White Rose for Post Hypnotic Press and numerous characters in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. 

World premieres include Theatre 20's Dora-nominated Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare, A Misfortune (Next Stage Festival), Musical Stage Company's ReFramed (Art Gallery of Ontario) and RePrint (Globe and Mail Centre), and Britta Johnson's Life After (Toronto Fringe).

Kaylee spent two seasons as an RBC Apprentice Director and Kathleen C. Freeman Leadership Development Fund Recipient with The Musical Stage Company in Toronto where she worked on Now What? The Art of Moving On (Co-Conceiver and -Director) and Dixon Road (Assistant Director). She staged/dramaturged MSC’s UnCovered: Fleetwood Mac & The Eagles and UnCovered: U2 & The Rolling Stones, in addition to directing two triptychs of new Canadian musicals: Retold (MSC) and In Studio: The Words and Music of Britta Johnson (Theatre Sheridan). She was Assistant Director to Tye Blue on Titaníque (Mirvish/Segal), Ray Hogg on Controlled Damage (The Grand) and Directing Associate to Robert McQueen on Pollyanna the Musical (Theatre Aquarius). Kaylee teaches private singing lessons, coaches auditions, and has led workshops at the Stratford Festival, University of Toronto and Trinity Western University.