Margaret M. Ledford, (Director, Mountain Mamas) (she/her) hails from Chattanooga where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Speech from the University of Tennessee. She has directed plays, musicals, and readings all over South Florida, including Promethean Theatre (resident director for eight years), Palm Beach Dramaworks, The Foundry, Gablestage, Florida Reparatory Theatre, Naked Stage, New Theatre, Delray Beach Arts Garage, Mosaic Theatre, Caldwell Theatre Company, Florida Stage, Island City Stage, Thinking Cap Theatre, Theatre Lab, University of Miami, Florida Atlantic University. She studied Cubist-Expressionistic scenography post-WWI at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Margaret is a National Reviewer for the National YoungArts Foundation in theatre and musical theatre, a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and a co-founder and Creator at Mangrove Creative Collective. In SFL she is an eight-time Carbonell Award nominee for Best Director and winner of multiple Silver Palm awards for Direction, and she has been Miami's City Theatre Artistic Director since 2017. Having begun her professional career as a Production Assistant at Barter Theatre, Margaret is grateful and thrilled to return and create here again.