McKenna is a regional actor, dancer, singer, multidisciplinary creator and Sign Language Interpreter. She was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. GO SPURS. She graduated from Northeast School Of The Arts/Lee, a gifted and talented magnet arts high school, majoring in Musical Theatre. She followed her dreams to St. Louis where she trained and graduated in May 2012 from Webster University Conservatory with a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre.

          With 8+ years of life altering concentrated theatre education under her belt, McKenna moved to Chicago.  She jumped right into the Chicago theatre scene with Waltzing Mechanics' documentary style show "El Stories: The Holiday Train 2012” and learned just how fabulous and retched CTA public transit can truly be. After the doors closed on that show, McKenna quickly found her artistic home with Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble as an Ensemble Member and a Teaching Artist in May 2013. McKenna helped devise and perform T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" a multidisciplinary show with a four person, tightly-woven ensemble. It remounted for two Chicago Fringe Festivals: Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theatre Festival XXVI and Rhinofest. She has been Project Coordinator/Workshop Facilitator/Director for “Tales From Around The World”, a traveling children's show, that tours many of the Chicago Park Districts. As a Teaching Artist she has taught all over the city with CDE including: The Children's School, Oscar Mayer Magnet School, A.N. Pritzker, and 2015/2016 school year fostered a love for the arts teaching 3rd, 4th and 5th grade Drama at Prescott Elementary. The beginning of this year, she started working as a Guest Teacher with a new company, Charter Substitute Teacher Network. 

           Presently McKenna is studying at Columbia College for a degree in American Sign Language/English Interpretation to be completed May 2018. The plan is to be a working community interpreter in both Texas and Chicago. She flew over to Sonora, California at the end of 2014 to put her ASL skills to good use in the musical, "Sanders Family Christmas" at Sierra Repertory Theater. As the character June, she interpreted twelve songs and played percussion for thirteen more. In 2016 McKenna spent three months in San Antonio, Texas performing the role of Sylvia in "Tribes" influencing the theater community to produce ASL interpreted performances.

        Since breaking her first curtain at 11 years old, McKenna’s most outstanding role she has ever had the opportunity to perform has been Juliet, in "R + J: The Vineyard" with Red Theater Chicago-RTC and Oracle Productions. This boundary breaking show, which had a sold-out run, an extension, and a remount at The Den Theatre was an adapted version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" incorporating Deaf talent and American Sign Language. At the end of 2015, she joined Red Theater Chicago-RTC as Audience Manager and Artistic Associate. She has now passed the torch to a new Manager and transitioned to Company Member!

       When not in a show, learning to interpret, or teaching, you can catch her zooming around downtown as a Segway Tour Guide for Steve’s Segway Tours and Trikke Chicago.  She loves learning about the history of Chicago architecture, presenting beautiful downtown historic sites, and occasionally wishes she could yank selfie sticks out of tourists hands while cruising down Michigan Avenue.