McKegg, Dorothy

Born in Palmerston North, Dorothy McKegg started professional acting in radio productions in Wellington, She won a singing bursary to the Royal College of 'Music in the 1940’5, where she studied for 2 1/2 years. 

“Happened to be in the right place at the right time” she said, and as a result did an hour-long monthly television series called “More To The Contrary”. 

In 1956 she returned to New Zealand and also to N.Z.B.C. radio productions. 

She is married with three children. Dorothy McKegg was with Downstage from its beginnings in the 1960 s and has done many Downstage productions, the last three being Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”, — playing Lady Bracknell. “Home”—by David Storeyplaying Cath, and Ibsen’s “Ghosts.”