{"title":"Pam MacKinnon","role":"Director","image":"","lede":null,"content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><strong>PAM MACKINNON <\/strong>(Director) is the Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco.  Currently in rehearsal at the The National Theatre in London is her production with Steppenwolf Theatre Co of the world premiere of <em>Downstate<\/em> by Bruce Norris.  Pam won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for her direction of Edward Albee\u2019s <em>Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/em> (Steppenwolf, Arena Stage and Broadway).  She won an Obie Award and a Tony Award nomination For Bruce Norris\u2019 <em>Clybourne Park<\/em> (Playwrights Horizons, Mark Taper, Broadway). Other recent directing credits include Edward Albee\u2019s <em>Seascape<\/em> (A.C.T.); Beau Wilimon\u2019s <em>The Parisian Woman<\/em> (Broadway), starring Uma Thurman; Jordan Harrison\u2019s Log Cabin (Playwrights Horizons).  Pam is the president of the executive board of the national labor union, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), an alumna of the Lincoln Center and Women\u2019s Project Directors\u2019 Labs, and Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre, and after six seasons of being board chair now sits on the advisory board of the New York City theater company Clubbed Thumb, dedicated to new American plays.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","website":"","alt":""}