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Margo Hall

She // Her // Hers

Actor, Director, Playwright, and Educator

Oakland, California

Margo, an African-American woman wearing a bright pink and yellow top, dangling metal hoops, and pink lipstick, beams into the camera against a bright red background.

Photo by Lisa Keating

Margo Hall is an award-winning actor, director, playwright, and educator. Hall has been a leading performer and director in the Bay Area for over thirty years. In 2020, she was appointed the new Artistic Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theater of San Francisco, one of the nation’s premier homes of Black theater. Hall’s film credits include Blindspotting with Daveed Diggs and the Netflix film All Day and A Night. She is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Chabot College in the Theater Department. She is also a founding member of Campo Santo, a multicultural theater company in San Francisco, where she has directed, performed in, and collaborated on numerous plays. In 2018, Hall was awarded the Jerry Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.

Donor -The Rainin Arts Fellowship is supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 09.05.2024

A woman in a bright yellow dress and headdress holds her hand up to the chest of a man in overalls.

Black Odyssey by Marcus Gardley produced by California Shakespeare Theater, 2018. Margo Hall as Athena/Aunt Tina with Aldo Billingslea.

Photo by Jay Yamada Photography.

On a set of cinderblock architecture, a woman in a construction vest speaks with her arms up and her facing expressing deep emotion. Behind her, a young man looks on.

Skeleton Crew by Domenique Morriseau, 2018. Margo Hall as Faye with Christian Thompson. Produced by TheatreWorks and Marin Theatre Company.

Photo by Kevin Berne Photography.

A figure stands on a dark stage, the wall covered in hundreds of sheets of paper. A projection above them reads "August Wilson, The American Century Cycle."

August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned (2003), directed by Margo Hall, 2019. Performed at Marin Theatre in partnership with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and Ubuntu Theater Project.

Kevin Berne photography.