Shaundra McDill
Shaunda McDill joined Pittsburgh Public Theater as Managing Director in February 2023. Previously, she was a program officer at The Heinz Endowments, supporting a suite of Pittsburgh-based artists and arts organizations. Ms. McDill has over a decade of non-profit executive and arts management experience, working for theater companies across the country, including The Goodman Theatre of Chicago, Pasadena Playhouse, and Cornerstone Theater Company. In 2006, she also founded DEMASKUS Theater Collective. In Pittsburgh, Ms. McDill served as vice president of programming and cultivation at the (then) August Wilson Center for African American Culture, where she managed all artistic and educational programs. As the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s director of public relations, she headed both national and local public relations campaigns. Ms. McDill is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale University. She is an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and serves on the Boards of Jada House International, Inc., the Office for Public Art, and Little Lumpy’s Center for Educational Initiatives. Ms. McDill is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Pierians, Incorporated. She worships at Macedonia Church of Pittsburgh and is married to Pittsburgh native Sager McDill and the proud bonus mom to four children.
