Casey McKinnon is a Canadian actress and producer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is known for her work on web series Galacticast, A Comicbook Orange and Kitkast.
Background Born and raised in Montreal, McKinnon attended St. Thomas High School with partner Rudy Jahchan and studied East Asian studies at McGill University alongside Autumn Phillips; herself both a McGill and St Thomas High School alumna. Before pursuing a full-time career in new media, she worked for the United Nations.
Career
Web series
McKinnon first became known under the pseudonym Ms. Kitka, the host of sex news and entertainment show Kitkast, launched on October 15, 2005. Inspired by podcasting and British television show Sin Cities, the show gained mainstream attention from Rolling Stone and The Guardian. Due to a desire to make a science fiction show, she decided to move onto other projects and launched Galacticast with her boyfriend Rudy Jahchan on May 8, 2006. Under the corporation name 8Bit Brownies Inc., the two went on to co-produce a short miniseries for Next New Networks filmed at South by Southwest called Pulp Secret Confessions and later launched the comic book and graphic novel review show A Comicbook Orange on June 6, 2006, where McKinnon worked as host. In July 2007, McKinnon was hired to host Pulp Secret Live At Comic-Con, where she made a daily update show live from San Diego Comic-Con.
In addition to her self-produced works, she has appeared in Geek Therapy alongside America Young, Star Wars inspired lightsaber battle Elf Sabers with The Guild's Teal Sherer, Babelgum original series Hurtling Through Space at an Alarming Rate as nemesis Kalm, and the fan imagined trailer for Elfquest.
Journalism From July to October 2007, she wrote a monthly column for The Guardian following her experiences working in web video. The articles connect new media to their Hollywood predecessors and reflect a desire for Internet television to be taken seriously by the old media community.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes 2008 Six Reasons Why Nomad's Mother 2011ElfQuest: A Fan Imagining Brownberry Short film 2011Elf Sabers Elf Casey Short film 2012Alice and the Monster Posh Girl 2016Perchance to Dream Proctor Short film
Television Year Title Role Notes 2006Torrent Herself Episode: "Episode 28" 2006 The Money Programme Various Archive footage from Galacticast 2010EP Daily Herself 1 episode
Theatre Year Title Role Notes 2014 Hamlet Max Guildenstern Hamlet set in a post-apocalyptic world 2014 Celini Ashley Serial Killers at Sacred Fools Theater Company 2014 A Woman of No Importance Lady Stutfield Sacred Fools Theater Company 2015 Sight Unseen Grete The Lounge Theatre on Theatre Row Hollywood 2016 The Tragedy of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare) Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Produced by The Blank and based on Calpurnia in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Web Year Title Role Notes 2005 Kitkast Ms. Kitka 20 episodes 2006-2008Galacticast Various 68 episodes 2006Goodnight Burbank Herself Episode: "GNB 20 - No Pets Left Behind. Sprouts kill cancer. Walnuts fights transfats." 2007Pulp Secret Live at Comic-Con Herself 3 episodes 2007-2010 A Comicbook Orange Herself 50 episodes 2007CNET TV Herself 2 episodes 2007Pro at Cooking Herself Episode: "Episode 2" 2009Hurtling Through Space at an Alarming Rate Kalm Episode: "The Wrath of Kalm" 2010Rocketboom Herself Episode: "Casey McKinnon" 2010Project: Comic-Con Herself - Narrator (voice) 4 episodes 2010 The Web.Files Herself Episode: "A Comicbook Orange" 2010 The RadNerd Show Herself Episode: "Casey McKinnon" 2010Fanboy Funhouse Futuristic Mullet Chick/Herself 2 episodes 2010BlackBoxTV Angela Billson Episode: "This Is For You Baby!" 2010Bumps in the Night Captain Howdy/Bunny 2 episodes 2011Elevator Lucy Episode: "Harold the Janitor's Dad" 2011Midday at Noon Vampira Episode: "Infidelity" 2012Geek Therapy Steve Jobs Grief Counselor Episode: "Steve Jobs Mourner" 2012Tabletop Herself Episode: "Dixit" 2013Shelf Life Young Hero Lass Singer (voice) Episode: "Powered Up" 2014IRrelevant Astronomy Computer technician Episode: "Fusion vs. Fission"
Awards and nominations
As a producer, McKinnon's work on Galacticast garnered five PodTech Vloggie Awards and three Parsec nominations,Parsec Awards 2007 Finalists | The Parsec Awards while A Comicbook Orange was nominated for Best Hosted Web Series in the 2nd Streamy Awards and won Best Web Non-Fiction in Clicker.com's Best of 2010 awards.
She has also been named a sexy geek by the Montreal Gazette and blogger Violet Blue.
+ Awards and nominations for Casey McKinnon Year Award Show Category Nominated work Result2012 Inaugural IAWTV Awards Best Host (Taped) A Comicbook Orange 2016 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Awards Best Featured Actress in a Play (Local Production) The Tragedy of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare)
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