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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

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.

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.

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.