PATRICIA McGREGOR (she/her/hers). Born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Patricia McGregor is a director and writer working in theater, TV/film, and music. McGregor has twice been profiled by The New York Times for her direction of world premieres. Productions include Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole (co-writer and director, Geffen Playhouse, People’s Light); Sisters In Law (Wallis Annenberg); What You Are, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure (The Old Globe); Skeleton Crew (Geffen Playhouse, Studio Theater); Good Grief (Center Theater Group); Hamlet (The Public Theater); Place (BAM); The Parchman Hour (The Guthrie Theater); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company); brownsville song… (Lincoln Center); Indomitable: James Brown (The Apollo); Holding It Down (Metropolitan Museum); A Raisin in the Sun, The Winter’s Tale, Spunk (California Shakespeare Theater); Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR); Blood Dazzler (Harlem Stage); Four Electric Ghosts (The Kitchen); and the world premiere of Hurt Village (Signature Theatre Company). For many years she has directed The 24-Hour Plays on Broadway. She served as director for HBO’s emerging writer’s showcase and tour consultant to Raphael Saadiq and J Cole. Additionally, she was a directing shadow on HBO’s “Lovecraft Country.” Patricia co-founded Angela’s Pulse with her sister, choreographer, and organizer Paloma McGregor, and is Artist in Residence for Adam Driver’s Arts in the Armed Forces and serves on the advisory board for the Parent Artist Advocacy League. She is a member of the National Theater’s International Director’s Lab and a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop. McGregor attended the Yale School of Drama, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret.
