PATRICIA McGREGOR has twice been profiled by The New York Times for her direction of world premieres. Her recent credits include co-author and director of the world premier of Lights Out, Nat King Cole (Peoples Light ) Skeleton Crew (Geffen Theater) Grief (Center Theater Group) Parchman Hour (Guthrie Theater), Hamlet (The Public Theater), Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company), brownsville song (b-side for tray) (Lincoln Center Theater), the world premiere of Stagger Lee (Dallas Theater Center), and the world premiere of Hurt Village (Signature Theatre Company). Her other credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Winter's Tale, Spunk, Adoration of the Old Woman, Blood Dazzler, Holding It Down, Four Electric Ghosts, Nothing Personal, and The House That Will Not Stand. She served as tour consultant on J. Cole World Tour and will premier a new piece at BAM by composer Ted Hearne and poet Saul Williams. For several years she has directed the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, a co-founder of Angela's Pulse with he sister choreographer and organizer Paloma McGregor and was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow at Yale School of Drama, where she also served as Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret.

For professional inquiries contact Olivier Sultan and Ally Shuster at CAA.

Community engagement is central to my art making. Here are links to my collaborators and progressive community organizations I work with or admire:

• Just Me, You and the Silence

  A powerful new play by Ugandan writer Judy Adong about the harsh anti-homosexuality laws that divide her country.

• Angela's Pulse

  A vibrant collective of artists and activists founded by Patricia and Paloma McGregor.

• Harlem Stage

  A performing arts center that celebrates and perpetuates the unique and diverse artistic legacy of Harlem and the indelible impression it has made on American culture.

• The 52nd Street Project

  Matches inner city kids with professional theatre artists to create original theatre.

• The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond

  Focuses on understanding what racism is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone.

• MAPP International

  Nurtures contemporary artists who reside and create in many parts of the world, embracing multidirectional infiltration and invigoration, and contributing to the U.S.'s role as a valued partner in a global creative community.

• In The Cypher