Biography

Russell McGee is a multi-award-winning writer/director/producer, an Audie Award Finalist, and a 2019 and 2020 Regional Emmy nominated writer. Russell received his Master's in TV/Film Production at Indiana University, in 2013, and his Bachelors in Theatre with a creative writing minor from Indiana State University, in 2001. He is a Meisner trained actor, and he has been producing and directing since 1993.

In 2002, his full-length play "Ankhenaten & Nefertiti" earned him a scholarship to attend the W. B. Yeats International Summer School. In 2007, he was awarded the Basile Playwriting Fellowship through the Indiana Theatre Association for his ten-minute play "The Clockwork Man" and his play "Silent Cinema" won the Artsweek Playwriting Competition. In 2008, he founded Starrynight Productions and was the Literary Manager of the Bloomington Playwrights Project. In 2013, his film "Funeral March of a Marionette" won the Best Narrative category at the Iris Film Festival. He co-created and co-wrote the web series "Silence", which won the Best Screenwriting Category at the 2013 Multivisions Multimedia Conference, was an official selection of the 2013 Indy Film Con and was an official selection of the 2014 Irvine International Film Festival. In 2014, he co-wrote a pilot script "Forman Chronicles", which placed third in the short screenplay category at the 2014 Diabolique International Film Festival.

He works as a Multimedia Producer/Director at WTIU/WFIU, teaches Screenwriting and Sound Design at Indiana University, has written multiple Doctor Who short stories including a Subscriber Short Trip, and is a sound designer for Big Finish Productions LTD on their Doctor Who full-cast audio plays. He has worked as Second Unit Director/Producer on Doctor Who documentaries for Reeltime Pictures. He also was the Vice President of the National Audio Theatre Festivals and the Festival Director for the Hear Now Festival from 2021 to 2025.

He won the Best Vocal Direction Award in the 2019 Audio Verse Awards, and won the Bronze Festival Favorite Award in 2019, 2020, and 2021 at the Hear Now Festival. Peggy's Poetry & Zarg a puppet show created by McGee has been Emmy nominated 6 times and won 16 Telly Awards to date. The Ernie Pyle Experiment won 3 Communicator Awards. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz adapted, directed, and produced by McGee won 9 Communicator Awards in 2024 and won the Best Sound Design Award at 2025 Pop Con Podcast Awards. A Watcher in the Woods adapted, directed, and produced by McGee won 6 Communicator Awards in 2025.
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