Pam MacKinnon
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Pam MacKinnon is an Obie and Lilly Award recipient. Recent credits include: Itamar Moses' Completeness (Playwrights Horizons, SCR) and The Four of Us (MTC, Old Globe) and Bach at Leipzig (NYTW); David Weiner's Extraordinary Chambers (Geffen); Rachel Axler's Smudge (WPP); Cusi Cram's A Lifetime ...
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Pam MacKinnon Biography
Pam MacKinnon is an Obie and Lilly Award recipient. Recent credits include: Itamar Moses' Completeness (Playwrights Horizons, SCR) and The Four of Us (MTC, Old Globe) and Bach at Leipzig (NYTW); David Weiner's Extraordinary Chambers (Geffen); Rachel Axler's Smudge (WPP); Cusi Cram's A Lifetime Burning (Primary Stages); Bruce Norris's CLYBOURNE PARK (Playwrights Horizons, Taper) and The Unmentionables (Woolly Mammoth).She is a frequent interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee, having directed Peter and Jerry (Second Stage, Hartford); Occupant (Signature); A Delicate Balance (Arena); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Alley, Vienna); The Play About the Baby (Philadelphia, Goodman); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Steppenwolf, Arena, upcoming Broadway).
She is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab and the Drama League and sits on the board of the downtown theater Clubbed Thumb, Inc. committed to new American plays.
Pam MacKinnon Awards and Nominations
Drama Desk Awards - 2013 - Outstanding Director of a Play | ||
Pam MacKinnon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2013 - Outstanding Director of a Play | ||
Pam MacKinnon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
Tony Awards - 2013 - Best Direction of a Play | ||
Pam MacKinnon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
Tony Awards - 2012 - Best Direction of a Play | ||
Pam MacKinnon, Clybourne Park | ||
Obie Awards - 2010 - Directing ![]() |
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Pam MacKinnon, Clybourne Park | ||
The Lortels - 2010 - Outstanding Director | ||
Pam MacKinnon, Clybourne Park | ||
Helen Hayes Awards - 2008 - Outstanding Director, Resident Play | ||
Pam MacKinnonThe Unmentionables |
Pam MacKinnon News

by - Jan 19, 2023
This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 1/19/2023 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 4, 2023
TheFrontOffice Foundation is awarding a $25,000 mid-career grant to Mina Morita, the Director of Artistic & Artist Development at Crowded Fire Theater Company, that will serve as one of the largest financial awards to an individual director.

by Blair Ingenthron - Dec 19, 2022
Playwrights Horizons (Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has extended the New York premiere of Bruce Norris's provocative, critically lauded play Downstate, directed by Pam MacKinnon, a second and final time, to January 7, 2023.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 15, 2022
American Conservatory Theater has announced the full cast and creative team for the West Coast premiere of Obie Award-winning Bay Area playwright Christopher Chen’s The Headlands.

by A.A. Cristi - Dec 6, 2022
The Latinx Playwrights Circle has announced the Off-Broadway Premiere of Christin Eve Cato's Sancocho directed by Rebecca Martinez, in partnership with WP Theater and The Sol Project.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 1, 2022
Sancocho, a new play by Christin Eve Cato (The Good Cop, DUAF 2022) directed by Rebecca Martinez (Miss You Like Hell; Theatre for One: Here We Are) will have its Off-Broadway premiere at WP Theater in Spring 2023.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 22, 2022
See photos of the New York premiere of Bruce Norris’s provocative, critically lauded play Downstate, directed by Pam MacKinnon, now extended at Playwrights Horizons to December 22.

by Stephi Wild - Nov 16, 2022
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) announced the results of its 2022 Executive Board election at its Annual Membership Meeting on Monday night, November 14. Evan Yionoulis was elected to serve a second term as Executive Board President.

by Review Roundups - Nov 15, 2022
Playwrights Horizons will present the New York premiere of Bruce Norris’s Downstate, directed by Pam MacKinnon, October 28–December 11 (opening November 15). This provocative work surrounds a registered address in downstate Illinois, where four men convicted of sex crimes share a group home, living out their days post-incarceration.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 21, 2022
Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Robinson Family Fund for the Arts announced that Bay Area actors Cathleen Riddley and Brian Rivera are recipients of the 2022 Charles Dean Award.
Pam MacKinnon Videos


by Stage Tube - May 30, 2020
Center Theatre Group has released a new video in its Scenes From the Vault series. This time, they're flashing back with a clip of Phillipa Soo in the pre-Broadway run of Amelie at the Ahmanson in 2016!


by BroadwayWorld TV - Jun 13, 2019
Roundabout Theatre Company presents the world-premiere production of Toni Stone, by Lydia R. Diamond, directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon. Get a first look below!


by Caryn Robbins - Jan 11, 2018
Uma Thurman stopped by today's LIVE WITH KELLY AND RYAN to discuss her Broadway debut in THE PARISIAN WOMAN. 'What' so fun about it is it's set in this exact moment, so it's almost real time. It's political, it's emotional, it's about complex relationships.' Watch the appearance below


by Caryn Robbins - Dec 27, 2017
Josh Lucas stops by this week's LIVE WITH KELLY AND RYAN to talk about his Broadway comedy THE PARISIAN WOMAN, co-starring Uma Thurman


by Stage Tube - Dec 20, 2017
After a smash run last fall, Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) will present MILES FOR MARY, a new play by The Mad Ones. Directed by Lila Neugebauer, MILES FOR MARY received critical acclaim during its fall 2016 run at The Bushwick Starr. Watch the new trailer below!


by TV - Opening Night Special - Dec 1, 2017
The Parisian Woman, the electrifying new play by 'House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon, directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park), starring Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman in her Broadway debut, opened just last night at Hudson Theatre (141 West 44th Street).


by BroadwayWorld TV - Nov 29, 2017
The Parisian Woman, the electrifying new play by 'House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon, directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park), starring Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman in her Broadway debut, opens on Broadway this Thursday, November 30, at Hudson Theatre (141 West 44th Street). BroadwayWorld has a full first look at Thurman and the cast in action below!


by Caryn Robbins - Nov 24, 2017
Uma Thurman, currently making her Broadway debut in in The Parisian Woman, took to Instagram on Thanksgiving Day to send a strong message to Harvey Weinstein and his 'wicked conspirators.' The actress starred in the Weinstein-produced cult films PULP FICTION and KILL BILL.


by TV - Press Previews - Oct 18, 2017
Previews begin on Thursday, November 9 for The Parisian Woman, the electrifying new play by 'House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon, directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon and starring Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman. As previously announced, The Parisian Woman will open on Thursday, November 30 at the Hudson Theatre (141 West 44th Street).
by Caryn Robbins - Apr 28, 2017
On last night's LATE SHOW, Tony nominee Phillipa Soo, who currently stars in AMELIE on Broadway, told Stephen Colbert that she never wanted to know which celebrities were in attendance at HAMILTON