Margo Hall is an award-winning actor, director, playwright, and educator, as well as the Artistic Director of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT). She was awarded the 2021 Kenneth Rainin Fellowship in Theater and listed as one of the YBCA 100 honorees for 2020.
She was last seen onstage in Josephine’s Feast by Star Finch for Campo Santo and Magic Theatre. Other acting credits include Black Odyssey, Fences, Twelfth Night, A Raisin in the Sun, A Winter’s Tale, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, and SPUNK for California Shakespeare Theater; JAZZ, Skeleton Crew, Gem of the Ocean, Fences, and Seven Guitars for Marin Theatre Company; Ah! Wilderness, Once in a Lifetime, and Marcus or the Secret of Sweet for American Conservatory Theater; Exit Strategy and Trouble in Mind* for Aurora Theatre Company; Marcus Gardley’s A World in a Woman’s Hands for Shotgun Players; Barbecue* and MF with a Hat for San Francisco Playhouse.
Margo debuted as a theater director with Campo Santo’s world premiere of Joyride, from the novel Grand Avenue by Greg Sarris, which won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script; the SF Weekly Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Ensemble, and Best Director; the Drama-Logue Award for Best Production and Best Ensemble in Northern California; the Backstage Garland Award for Best Production and Best Ensemble in Northern California; and the Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Stage. She recently directed Soulful Christmas for LHT, Nollywood Dreams for San Francisco Playhouse, and Hieroglyph (a co-production for LHT and San Francisco Playhouse). Other directing credits include Thurgood and Rejoice! (LHT); How I Learned What I Learned (LHT, Ubuntu, and Marin Theatre Company co-production); Barbecue, Red Velvet, and The Story (San Francisco Playhouse); andSonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, which toured France with Word for Word. With Ellen Sebastian Chang, she co-directed the Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bulrusher by Eisa Davis for Shotgun Players. She also directed Once on This Island, Hamlet, Blood in the Brain, SPUNK, The Trojan Women, It Falls, Ragtime, and A Streetcar Named Desire for Chabot College; and Polaroid Stories and In the Red and Brown Water for UC Berkeley.