In addition to scoring the movie-musical The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom, Nellie McKay 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. She is a contributor to The Onion and The New York Times Book Review and recently won a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Polly Peachum in the Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera.