Quarterfinalist, 2025 Roadmap Writers' Shorts Competition
BIO
MK MCGEHEE is an LA-based, award-winning filmmaker and photographer who first found her calling in site-specific and experiential theatre around the world. She earned her BFA from NYU Tisch and her MFA from UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse before becoming Creative Director at an esteemed, LA-based indie magazine. While there, she oversaw production and direction of both print and video features with such notable artists as Helen Mirren, Jared Leto, Walton Goggins, Patricia Clarkson, and more. As a queer child of the Deep South, MK grew up torn between the comfort of its gothic beauty and the quiet anger of being surrounded by people who claimed to love her while also condemning who she was at her core. That tension—the coexistence of love and repression—inspired her current feature script-in-progress, HYSTERIA, and continues to shape her voice as an artist. A survivor of violence and profound trauma, MK channels her lived experience into bold feminist psychological horror with a social edge. Her first narrative film, the proof-of-concept short THE RE-EDUCATION OF JANE BROWN, screened at over a dozen international festivals, winning multiple awards, including Best Narrative Short, Best Director, and Best Horror Short.