Biography

Pam MacKinnon

Pam is an Obie Award winning New York-based director. Recent productions include premieres of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons, Obie award and Lortel nominations); Rachel Axler's Smudge (Women's Project); and Cusi Cram's A Lifetime Burning (Primary Stages); as well as Shakespeare's Othello (Santa Cruz); and Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw (South Coast Rep). She is a long time interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee, having directed A Delicate Balance (Arena); The Goat or, Who's Sylvia? (Alley and Vienna); and The Play About the Baby (Philadelphia and Goodman); as well as premieres of At Home at the Zoo (formerly called Peter and Jerry at Hartford and Second Stage); and Occupant (Signature). Additional recent work includes premieres of Roberto Aguire Sacasa's Good Boys and True (Steppenwolf); Itamar Moses' The Four of Us (Manhattan Theatre Club and Old Globe); Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair (South Coast Rep); Jason Grote's Maria/Stuart (Woolly Mammoth); Itamar Moses' Bach at Leipzig (NYTW and Milwaukee Rep); Sheri Wilner's Father Joy (Contemporary American Theatre Festival and Summer Play Festival); as well as productions of Bruce Norris' The Unmentionables (Woolly Mammoth); Richard Dresser's Below the Belt (ACT-Seattle); and David Mamet's Romance (Goodman). She is a Drama League and Lincoln Center Directors' Lab alumna and an Affiliated Artist with the New York downtown company Clubbed Thumb.