Pamela Winfrey is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and sci/arts curator. Her expertise is in the intersection between science and art and the human narrative that connects them. She is interested in the impact of science and its relationship to human behavior as well as the swirling world of ghosts.

She has a long history of being involved in large-scale immersive theater. She was the co-founder and primary singer/songwriter for Mobius Operandi (with Oliver DiCicco), an electro-acoustic sound sculpture ensemble for twenty years. In addition to playing out as a band, they produced three CD’s and five years of immersive environmental performances with swinging speakers and catenary arches that soared over the audiences. She also wrote intimate theater pieces with strong female characters. “It All Leads to the Lemon Scene” won numerous awards in Manhattan (Best Actress, Audience Favorite) which was also seen in Toronto, Dublin, and Texas. She was the co-founder of Musical Café, a San Francisco based group that supports the development of musicals, producing several showcases per year. She has also written many musicals which range from three-minute pieces about the sex lives of fleas to full length works about a band living and dying on an ill-fated ship.

She is also an arts curator specializing in science, technology, and health. She has curated exhibitions, performances, and events that explore everything from mental health to brain computer interface (BCI), digital clothing to The Really Big Questions. She is currently the Director of the Arts for two labs located at Arizona State University; the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center ACE) and the Aktipis Cooperation Lab and is the Director of Creative Ecosystem Design for the Cooperative Futures Initiative. She worked as an arts curator/senior artist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco for many years, served as the lead curatorial consultant for emerging artforms at Creative Capital, founded Navigating Cancer with Science and Art, and represented the United States on the Interactive Arts panel at Ars Electronica in Linz.

Lately, she has begun blending her curatorial work with social practice artworks, giving audiences the opportunity to actively engage in the works as participants. Audiences were invited to pretend they were living in 2050, asked what a hotdog means to them, and engaged in cooperation bingo (to name a few).