McKenna Parton (she/her) is a senior from Jolo, West Virginia, majoring in theater education. She currently has a radio show with WRKE called “The Kitsching Hour” where McKenna plays a roulette of songs special to her. Dubbed “your junk drawer’s favorite radio show”, the show features themed shows on Wednesdays at 2 pm, so be sure to check it out!
McKenna’s creativity does not end there as she has long been involved with theater and put passion into her role in the theater’s most recent production, “The Moors”. She has also had roles in the productions of “A Monster Calls” and “Machinal”, and worked in wardrobe for “Macbeth” and “Stupid F–ing Bird”. “The Moors has been one of my favorite plays forever. I read it my freshman year for an acting class, and I kind of fell in love with it, and I was so hype when we decided that we were going to do it. Now Nelson [theater professor] helped with the fight choreography, and that was another out of my element thing – I think my senior year has been kind of defined by getting out of my comfort zone in a lot of ways. But yeah, that’s one of my favorite memories of rehearsal because it was so hands on. One of the funnier moments that I remember from that process was one of our first ‘blood rehearsals’ where we finally rehearsed with the blood and everything. There was a point where the apparatus that I was using to spray the blood on the wall just wasn’t spraying. So I was back there, just freaking out, and then when Paige had to get it all over herself, she just got it out of my hand, opened up the full thing, and just poured it on herself. We ended up changing completely how the blood was gonna work, because Danielle [theater professor] liked whenever we screwed it up better than how it looked before, which I just thought was funny.”
One show that McKenna would love for RC to put on would be Newsies, her favorite musical since seeing a local production in middle school.
“My third favorite scent is probably, like, when you get a really fresh peach, and it’s super juicy. My family would always go down to South Carolina beaches, and we would [go to] peach stands on the side of the road [where] we would bring back a pallet of peaches to our other family members and just disperse them, because everybody loved them.”
“Fashion is my biggest passion, that is outside of my educational field of study. I like to play dress up with myself and that’s kind of how I’ve always been. I feel like I have a specific style and taste that I’ve developed over and over, especially since coming to college. I go through like Pokemon evolutions with the way that I dress, and I feel like the easiest way to tell of my current vibe is how I’m dressed.”
“The first person that I would like to thank is my grandma, she has provided me with such an insane amount of love and support that there’s nothing in the world that I could do for her to repay for everything. I’d also like to thank all of my friends and my dog Nina, who has recently passed away (honorary degree).”
Juniper Rogers
Folks at ‘Noke Editor
