Pam MacKinnon

Playwrights: Log Cabin, The Qualms, Clybourne Park, Completeness. PamMacKinnon serves as the Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She is a Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie Award-winning director. Recent credits include Lydia R. Diamond’s Toni Stone (Roundabout, A.C.T., Arena), Maria Irene Fornés’s Fefu And Her Friends (A.C.T.), and Christopher Chen’s Communion (A.C.T.). Pam is a frequent interpreter of the work of Edward Albee as well as Bruce Norris. She proudly serves on the Board of SDC, in solidarity with directors and choreographers.

• “Critic’s Pick! This deep, dark tragicomedy pokes and prods at our compassion, checks the pulse on our sense of justice, taps our reflex response to charm. And charm, in this play, is both a tool of the predators’ trade and a survival skill.”

  — The New York Times

• “Brilliant, risky, and in-your-face, Bruce Norris’s shocking, controversial ‘Downstate’ is the season’s best play so far.”

  — New York Post