An Evening with Nellie McKay

Ms. McKay’s albums include the self-produced Obligatory Villagers (Hungry Mouse, 2007) and Pretty Little Head (2006) and 2004’s Get Away From Me, the first major-label, double-album debut from a female artist. In addition to scoring the movie-musical The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom, she frequently contributes to The Onion and The New York Times Book Review, and won a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Polly Peachum in the Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera. An ardent activist, Nellie has been active in supporting get-out-the-vote efforts, the campaign to close Columbia University’s primate laboratories, and working to ban carriage horses throughout the country.