Dyllan McGee

Bio:

Dyllan McGee is an Executive Producer at Kunhardt McGee Productions overseeing all documentary and web programming along with her partner, Peter Kunhardt. She is currently in production on MAKERS: Women Who Make America, a multi- platform project with PBS and AOL that tells the story of how women have transformed American life over the past half century, and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a 6-hour documentary hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for PBS on the African-American experience from slavery to Barack Obama. Recent documentary projects include: the Emmy Award Nominated documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words (HBO), Emmy-award winning Teddy: In His Own Words (HBO); Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS); This Emotional Life (PBS); African American Lives 1 and 2 (PBS); Oprah's Roots (PBS); The American President(PBS), and In Memoriam; 9/11/01 (HBO). From 2003 to 2005, Dyllan served as the Director of Content and Operations for the International Freedom Center on Ground Zero in New York, a cultural institution that was proposed as part of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. In addition to her film work, McGee also serves on the Board of Directors for the Gordon Parks Foundation and the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, both not-for-profit organizations with a focus on photography. From 1997 to 2007 she served on the Board of Directors for The Taft School. She lives in Katonah, NY with her husband and two sons.