Marion Isaac McClinton (July 26, 1954 – November 28, 2019) was an American theatre director, playwright, and actor.

McClinton's early theater career was at Penumbra Theatre Company in Saint Paul, Minnesota where he was born.

He played the part of narrator in August Wilson's first stage piece, Black Bart and the Sacred Hills in 1981, and remained active at Penumbra through the early 1990s.

[6] He was an associate artist at Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland, where he directed several Wilson plays as well as Les Blancs and Splash Hatch on the E Going Down.

He had previously directed King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean and Jitney at the Goodman.