Pamella O'Connor has been a professional theatre artist for 30 years. She has produced, directed and performed traditional as well as puppet theatre. Trained as an actor first, she has performed at several regional theatres including Indiana Repertory, Arkansas Repertory, and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, working with such noted directors as Libby Appel of Oregon Shakespeare and Adrian Hall of the Alley Theatre in Houston.

She moved on to directing professionally in Atlanta and then producing large scale musicals. But in 1984, the direction of her professional life changed when she was asked to travel to Europe with Janie Geiser's Obie and UNIMA (the world puppetry organization) award winning Jottay Theatre. For 6 years she traveled with the troupe throughout the United States and Europe performing original puppet theatre pieces for adult audiences.

In 1996, she moved to Asheville with the sole intent of creating new works for puppet theatre. Her first ventures were family shows: Rapunzel and Vasalisa! The Russian Cinderella. Both of these have become juried selections of the Piccolo Spoleto Theatre Series and continue to tour to schools, libraries and festivals around the country. "Rapunzel" enjoyed a week of performances at The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. in October, '04. Her latest work, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is designed for adult audiences. It premiered in August, '03 and appeared at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta April 15-17, '05.