Interview: Director Pam MacKinnon on Finding the Artistic ‘Spine’ of Her Career and Working with Albee

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Director Pam MacKinnon on Finding the Artistic ‘Spine’ of Her Career and Working with Albee

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Pages:: 189–202

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004448605_011

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Abstract

Pam MacKinnon, Tony, Obie, and Drama Desk award-winning director and newly-named artistic director of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, directed her first Albee production, The Play About the Baby, for Philadelphia Theatre Company in 2002. Since then she has directed six different Albee plays in twelve different productions, including the 2012 Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which led to her first Tony award for direction. We sat down at Playwrights Horizon in May, 2018, to talk about her collaboration with Albee, the man she attributes to giving her career a direction and an “artistic spine.”

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Albee and Influence

Series: New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies, Volume: 4

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004448605

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 15 Feb 2021

Subjects
- Art History
  - Performing Arts
- Literature and Cultural Studies

Front Matter

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Influences on Albee

Chapter 1 “Lean[ing] against a Proscenium”

Chapter 2 “The Opposition of Artworks to Domination Is Mimesis of Domination”

Chapter 3 Animal Sacrifice in Albee’s Plays and Its Influence on the Contemporary Stage

Part 2 Albee’s Influence

Chapter 4 Love and Lies in the Living Room Dramas of John Guare, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee

Chapter 5 Dramatic Dialogue

Chapter 6 “To Fail … and to Fail Interestingly”

Chapter 7 Self-Constructed Dramatists

Chapter 8 Resistant Influencer

Chapter 9 “Laughter and Pain”

Part 3 Interviews

Chapter 10 Interview

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