Director

Patricia
McGregor

(she/her)

Born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Patricia McGregor is the Artistic Director of New York Theatre Workshop, as well as a director and writer working across disciplines. Los Angeles credits include Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole (co-writer and director; Geffen Playhouse); Skeleton Crew (Geffen Playhouse); Good Grief (Center Theatre Group); Place (Los Angeles Philharmonic, Brooklyn Academy of Music); Sisters in Law (Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts); Shakespeare: Call and Response, Krapp’s Last Tape, What You Are, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Measure for Measure (The Old Globe). McGregor has twice been profiled by The New York Times for her direction of world premieres. New York credits include Hamlet (The Public Theater); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company); brownsville song (b-side for tray) (Lincoln Center Theater); Indomitable: James Brown (Apollo Theater); Holding It Down (The Metropolitan Museum of Art); Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR Theatre); Blood Dazzler (Harlem Stage); Four Electric Ghosts (The Kitchen); and the world premiere of Hurt Village (Signature Theatre Company). Other credits include The Parchman Hour (Guthrie Theater); A Raisin in the Sun, The Winter’s Tale, and Spunk (Cal Shakes). She was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.