Mary McGinley

Mary McGinley has been the Producing Artistic Director of the Carolinian Shakespeare Festival in NC for the past 14 years. She has worked as a director, dramaturg, performer and administrator at many regional theaters across the country and in the New York area. She is the director of Actors Alternative Studio where she teaches acting, Shakespeare and does private coaching.  Mary is a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab and also teaches at Kean University in NJ.  She received her M.F.A. in Directing from Mason Gross School of the Arts and her B.A. in Acting from Rutgers University.  Besides classics she has worked extensively on new works with such playwrights as John Pielmeier and Bill Mastrosimone. She currently directs The Garden, A New Plays Project for New Millennium Theatre Works.