Margaret Toomey

Margaret Toomey (she/they) is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist, social justice activist, educator, and project manager with over twenty years of experience in the arts and culture sector across the United States.

While supporting consultants at Arts Consulting Group, Margaret also serves as the Director of Operations and Production for Mirror Stage and sits on the board of Macha Theatre, both small nonprofit theatre companies on the land of the Duwamish and Coast Salish peoples (Seattle, WA). Most recently they served as the inaugural Operations Manager at artEquity, steering the national social justice organization through the research and implementation of personnel policies, the creation of standard operating procedures for program registration and human resources efforts, and the rollout of a new donor and engagement database.

Previously, Margaret worked with Raleigh Arts as the Arts and Accessibility Assistant, supporting the grants director in capacity building opportunities for the Raleigh arts community through the COVID-19 pandemic. They project managed and served on the host committee when Raleigh hosted the Kennedy Center’s Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD^®) Conference in 2022, culminating in a special evening event featuring six individual arts organizations in Raleigh offering accessible events for LEAD^® attendees and Raleigh-area audience members.

Margaret is an award winning scenic and costume designer. Their work has graced stages across the country at the National Women’s Theatre Festival, Sound Theatre Company, BookIt Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare, Seattle Public Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Theatre22, Broadway by the Bay, Hillbarn Theatre, Los Altos Stage Company, Theatre232 at Triad Stage, WaterTower Theatre, among others.

Margaret was a member of the 2016 artEquity Leadership for Social Change Cohort in Seattle and the 2018 artEquity National Facilitator Cohort in New Orleans, Louisiana. They continue to learn from and engage in dismantling oppressive, ableist, and racist structures in the arts via the Kennedy Center’s Access/VSA International Network, artEquity, and Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium.

Margaret holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre from Grinnell College and a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatrical design from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.