Grace McLean

Grace McLean co-wrote and stars in the title role of Penelope off Broadway at Classic Stage Company from December 10-20, 2026.

McLean is best known for her Broadway performances as Marya in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, the Queen in Bad Cinderella, and Woodrow Wilson in Suffs. She is also a theatre writer and composer whose works include the 2019 musical In the Green; it was nominated for six Lucille Lortel Awards including Outstanding Musical, and McLean won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical.

She has been named a Lincoln Center writer-in-residence, a Broadway Women’s Fund’s Woman to Watch, and a MacDowell Fellow, and won prestigious theatre honors including the Vivace Award and Larson Grant.