Cecil MacKinnon
Theatre Director, Featured Performer, Yo-Yo the Narrator

Yo-Yo the Narrator - Cecil MacKinnon, a performer, director and teacher, has performed exclusively with theater companies in New York, including; Shaliko Company, Working Theatre, American Place Theatre, Theatre for a New City and PS-122. Since 1980, she has been a member of the Shakespeare and Company. MacKinnon co-founded the Pickle Family Jugglers, a comedy juggling act that expanded into The Pickle Family Circus. In 1994, she received the first Citizens’ Exchange Council grant to travel to Eastern Europe to research circus in transition. In 2002, MacKinnon was commissioned by the Virginia Festival to conceive and direct “Romeo and Juliet” using musicians with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Productions she has directed include; “Twelfth Night,” “Loves Labours Lost,” “Comedy of Errors,” and most recently, “Life is a Dream,” “On the Razzle” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” for the Portland Stage. She is currently Associate Arts Professor at NYU, Tisch School of Arts. MacKinnon has performed with and created shows for Circus Flora since 1986.