Laura Brown-MacKinnon (she/her/hers) lecturer in the Process & Practice of Stage Management and Stage Management for the Commercial Theatre. Laura worked on Broadway for more than ten years. Starting out with Gene O’Donovan and the 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 taking over Times Square for Broadway on Broadway.
After six years in the technical supervision side of Broadway, she decided to go back 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 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 all over Broadway. Laura also teaches in the Theatre Studies Program at Columbia School of the Arts.