Cecil MacKinnon is delighted to be back at Shakespeare & Company where she has taught in many workshops. For Shakespeare & Company, she directed productions including, on the Mainstage: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and The Comedy of Errors. Elsewhere, a sampling includes: in Madison, Wisconsin: On the Razzle,for the Naples Opera Company Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, At the Portland Stage Co. Much Ado About Nothing and Later Life (Gurney).While an Arts Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts she directed numerous productions, most recently an adaptation of The Madwoman of Chaillot called Who’s Crazy Now? She is theater director of Circus Flora, based in St. Louis, where she has co-created shows in the twelve hundred seat circus tent and in collaboration with the St. Louis Symphony at Powell Hall. She also directed the 2019-2020 season of the Big Apple Circus in New York.