Moira MacDonald

Photos by Colbert Davis.

Moira Lael MacDonald is a multidisciplinary theater artist and filmmaker. She has been awarded two generous grants from the Jim Henson Foundation for the development and production of her recent show, Blue Waves. Blue Waves was performed in August of 2025 at Automata Arts in Los Angeles.

During the Covid pandemic, Moira created The Story of Minka and Misho, an original tale told with shadow puppets, funded and hosted by the Getty Museum. Her other original shadow puppetry piece, Selkie, was performed at Automata Arts as well as the Skirball Cultural Center in LA.   Other work includes Edwin, Margery and Me, Anatomy Lesson, Amaranth, The Life of the Bee, and Letter from the Bees. Her short hand-processed film, The Visible Woman, has been screened at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, and at Concord Space as part of the Heavenly Directives series.  Moira holds an MFA in Puppetry and Integrated Media from CalArts, and a BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  She teaches at Pasadena City College, Moorpark College, and the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility. She was born and raised in Sitka, Alaska.