Kailey Potter

Lecturer, Theatre

Contact
Department of Performing Arts
Website: https://www.kaileypotter.com/
Email: mkpotte@clemson.edu

Education
MFA/MLitt in Shakespeare and Performance, Mary Baldwin University; BA in Performing Arts, Clemson University

Courses
Theatre Appreciation

Kailey Potter (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate actor and educator with a knack for Shakespeare, theatre, the classroom, and stage combat. With an MFA and MLitt in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University and a BA in Performing Arts from Clemson University, Kailey is a well-rounded theatre practitioner energized by ensemble, excited by heightened language and movement, and deeply passionate about the advancement of gender parity in classical works.

She's been seen regionally in A Midsummer Night’s Dream tour (Warehouse Theatre), The Ides: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare & Friends), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Sweet Tea Shakespeare), as well as The Birth of Merlin, Edward II, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth (Treehouse Shakespeare) and Arden of Faversham, The Frolicks or the Lawyer Cheated, Richard III (Mary Baldwin Shakespeare & Performance).

She’s worked as an education artist and director with Shakespeare & Company, as a fight choreographer, dramaturg, teaching artist, and text coach with the American Shakespeare Center Theatre Camp, and is currently a teaching artist with the Warehouse Theatre’s ‘This Wooden O’ program — bringing a kinesthetic, personalized approach to Shakespeare and his language to students of all ages. She’s led workshops on early modern cue scripts for students and teachers with the South Carolina Theatre Association and has taught theatre classes at Clemson University, Mary Baldwin University, and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.

As a fight choreographer, she's led workshops on basic stage combat safety and has collaborated with youth and adult performers to craft moments of gnarly and exciting stage violence for numerous productions, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, Edward II, and Romeo and Juliet.

Kailey likes playing her mandolin, pulling her car over to read historical road markers, and knows far too much about king Henry V. She's happiest when she's making theatre, holding a sword, or watching a student make a discovery that changes their perception of a story.