Artist Profiles

Pam MacKinnon

Pam MacKinnon is a Tony, Drama Desk and multi-Obie Award winning director. She is the artistic director of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She has directed more than eighty productions. Her Tony Award-winning production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? originated at Steppenwolf. Her production of Bruce Norris’s Downstate (Steppenwolf, National Theatre and Playwrights Horizons) was celebrated with several Jeff Awards and won Pam her second Obie. She served as president of SDC, the national Union of choreographers and directors.