Mac Young is an actor, director, and scenic designer who delights in creating innovative performance spaces. Through his designs, he attempts to create distinct visual worlds using minimal means, and dynamic arrangements of space that yield rich possibilities for performers.
Mac has a background in construction, graphic design, and technical drawing that go back to his teenage years, when he learned carpentry on the job with his father. A graduate of Bennington College, where he studied directing and performance, his early work with collaborative ensembles led him to apply his construction background to stagecraft. He has made his living since then as a scenic designer, scene-shop carpenter, and technical director, alongside his other work on stage.
Mac has acted, built, designed, and directed (though rarely all at once) with such Boston-area companies as Imaginary Beasts, Whistler in the Dark, New Rep, The Huntington Theatre, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Fiddlehead Theatre, Lyric Stage, Wheelock Family Theatre, Magnificent Bastard Productions, and The Martha's Vineyard Playhouse.
He loves designing and performing in found spaces, unique audience layouts, integrating projection in multi-layered ways, and sets that unfold through time.
"The theatre’s essential need was for a defined and permanent artificiality that shall give the actor scope... This splendid room does not obtrude with its mirrors and its tapestries. Always the living actor, driving his message directly at the spectator, dominates them all.” -Lee Simonson
