Tony Winning Director Pam MacKinnon Enjoys Life Outside of the Limelight

Tony Award-winning director Pam MacKinnon sat down with The Buffalo News for an interview earlier this year at the Metro Diner on the Upper West Side. The article describes the diner as somewhat similar to MacKinnon herself, saying, "The Metro skips glitz, and so does Pam MacKinnon."

The article describes MacKinnon's incredibly busy yet non-glitzy lifestyle. MacKinnon told Buffalo News, "I say no to more things than I say yes to...My plate is as full as it can be. I feel very fortunate that I can do projects that are diverse."

Of her most recent endeavor, China Doll, and her upcoming project of a musical adaptation of the movie "Amélie, she said, "...those are two incredibly different projects: content, tone, form. Everything is different about them, so that's the best. That's what keeps you coming back."

MacKinnon also explained her response to theatre gossip columnist Michael Riedel, who criticized MacKinnon's work on China Doll, as well as the production as a whole. MacKinnon told Buffalo News, "I take deep pride in my work...Maybe [Riedel] takes deep pride in his, I don't know. But he's part of the scene. I don't feel the victim. I just wanted to sort of nip it in the bud. We had a fine conversation. A lot of Broadway theater owners were there, and I put myself forward as part of the community."

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Pam MacKinnon's recent credits include China Doll (Broadway 2015), Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway, Arena, Steppenwolf; Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards for Best Director of a Play, Outer Critics Circle nomination); A Delicate Balance (Broadway 2014), Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park (Broadway, Mark Taper, Playwrights Horizons; Tony and Lortel nominations and Obie Award for Direction); Horton Foote's Harrison, TX (Primary Stages); Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman (SCR); Craig Lucas' The Lying Lesson (Atlantic); Itamar Moses' Completeness (Playwrights Horizons, SCR). She is a frequent interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee, having directed six of his plays, including the world premieres of Occupant (Signature) and Peter and Jerry, now titled At Home at the Zoo (Second Stage and Hartford). She is an alumna of the Drama League Fall Program and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and chairman of the board of the downtown theater CLUBBED THUMB, dedicated to new American plays. She is also slated to direct the upcoming musical adaptation of Amelie.