Laura Brown-MacKinnon

Laura Brown-MacKinnon started her Stage Management career in Los Angeles. After earning her MFA at the Yale School of Drama, Laura worked on Broadway for more than ten years. Working for Gene O’Donovan, she helped him create the Broadway technical supervision firm of Aurora Productions. She served first as assistant to the technical supervisor and eventually worked her way up to associate technical supervisor on over 68 Broadway productions and first national tours. These productions include The Who’s Tommy, Broken Glass, Medea, A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hamlet, Master Class, The King and I, Seven Guitars, An Ideal Husband, Having Our Say, Skylight, Stanley, Titanic , A Doll’s House, 1776, Jackie, The Diary of Anne Frank, Freak, Art, The Chairs, Sideman, High Society, Judas Kiss, The Blue Room, Not About Nightingales, Closer, Amy’s View, and numerous years of Broadway on Broadway.

After six years on the technical supervision side of theatre, she returned to stage management. Her Off-Broadway and regional stage management credits include Chesapeake with Mark Linn-Baker at Second Stage Theatre, Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton, Michael Emerson and Kathryn Hahn for Williamstown Theatre Festival, and The Unexpected Man with Alan Bates and Eileen Atkins at the Promenade Theatre. Her Broadway stage management credits include Arthur Miller's The Price, Rose with Olympia Dukakis, 42nd Street, and The Crucible with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, as well as numerous substitute stage manager positions on teams all over Broadway. Laura also teaches stage management at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.