Kaylee Harwood is an award-winning performer, director and 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, Western Canada Theatre, Arts Club, The Musical Stage Company, Catalyst 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. Last year, she starred as Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at the Arts Club, directed/produced the independent miniseries The Dressing Room in Vancouver, Canada, and was nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding Direction for ReTold (Musical Stage Company, Toronto).

World premieres include Theatre 20's Dora-nominated Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare, A Misfortune (Factory Theatre, Next Stage Festival), Musical Stage Company's ReFramed (Art Gallery of Ontario) and RePrint (Globe and Mail Centre), and Britta Johnson's Life After (Theatre Passe Muraille, 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), Dixon Road (assistant director) and Meat (workshop director). Kaylee recently directed two triptychs of new Canadian musicals: Retold (Musical Stage Company) and In Studio: The Words and Music of Britta Johnson (Theatre Sheridan). She performed in and was Assistant Director to Ray Hogg on Controlled Damage at The Grand in London and was Directing Associate to Robert McQueen on Pollyanna the Musical at Theatre Aquarius. Kaylee teaches private singing lessons, coaches auditions, and has led workshops at the Stratford Festival, University of Toronto and Trinity Western University.