Dyllan McGee is a two-time Emmy and du-Pont-Columbia Journalism Award-winning filmmaker as well as the founder and executive producer of McGee Media, a documentary film company dedicated to producing content that inspires a more fair and equitable world (founded with her husband, Mark Weigel.). She is also the founder and executive producer of the Verizon Media brand MAKERS, a live events and media platform that exists to accelerate the women’s movement. McGee has made a mark in bringing creativity and innovation to all her collaborations. McGee Media projects in production include: Not Done, a documentary and campaign that will tell the story of the women’s movement today and the reignited, intersectional fight for equality (PBS); Frederick Douglass, a multipart series based on the Pulitzer Prize Award-winning biography by David Blight (HBO); The Black Church, a 4-part series on the history of the institution (PBS); Season 7 of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS); and more. Past projects include: duPont-Columbia Award-winning series, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (PBS); 4-part series Black America Since MLK (PBS); Once and For All (Amazon/MAKERS), a feature documentary that tells the story of the 1995 UN Conference on Women in Beijing; Emmy Award-nominated 6-part MAKERS series on women in space, Hollywood, politics, war, comedy, and business (PBS); Emmy Award-nominated documentary, Gloria: In Her Own Words (HBO); Emmy and Peabody Award-winning, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS); Africa’s Great Civilizations (PBS); Living With Lincoln (HBO); Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (Discovery); First In Human (Discovery); Emmy Award-winning, Teddy: In His Own Words (HBO); This Emotional Life (PBS); Oprah’s Roots (PBS); and Emmy-nominated, In Memoriam; 9/11/01 (HBO). In addition to her television credits, McGee is also the Executive Producer of The MAKERS Conference, an annual gathering of high-powered corporate women and men with an agenda to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Past speakers include: Gloria Steinem, America Ferrera, Olivia Wilde, John Legend, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Aniston, Anita Hill, Jill Soloway, Katie Couric, and so many more known and lesser known legends. McGee served as the Director of Content and Operations for the International Freedom Center at 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. She is the recipient of the New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Award and the Planned Parenthood Visionary award for her work preserving women's stories. She served on the boards of The Gordon Parks Foundation and The Taft School. She lives in Waccabuc, NY, with her husband and two teenage sons (and a few chickens.)
