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THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Written by Marla Mindelle, Jonathan Parks-Ramage, & Philip Drennen
Directed & Choreographed by Connor Gallagher

WATCHDOG: A PSYCHO THRILLER
DIRECTOR

Written by Murphy Taylor Smith & Emerson Mae Smith
Arrangements by Adam J. Rineer

  • in May 2024, Mack directed the Makers Lab reading of Elsewhere by their dear friend Wes Olivier/Klondyke. Klon’s author’s note for the piece sums it up:
    This world is both ours and not. Both real and fictional. A fable and an anecdote. Transness is inherent to this process and work. Radical revolutionary mindset is central. Shadow work in the self and the community. Together we rise. Darkness is the mother of light. The daughter, causality. Her twin, time.

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  • In March 2024, Mack directed the industry reading of Emmanuelle Mattana’s brilliant new work, Trophy Boys. Produced by Amy Marie Haven and Leon Jones with Telegraph Productions.

  • In January 2024, Mack directed Ring Of Keys’ first ever gala, and those trans and queer artists blew the roof off of Joe’s Pub.

    Press: Playbill | BWW | read the Digital Program


  • BGJ is in our workshop era! In March 2024 Mack joined the team as the show’s Associate Director & is thrilled to continue the production’s development towards its delulu debut this fall.

    more on The Big Gay Jamboree here!

  • Mack directed the NYC premiere reading of Laser Webber’s campy new musical comedy at Green Room 42. It was a sexy funny stupid trans fever dream, and Travis McElroy was in it. Press: BWW

  • Mack directed the developmental reading of Madeleine George’s new play and winner of the Hermitage Major Theater Award at MCC this fall. The Sore Loser is a Faustian comedy about power, domination, and the death of the patriarchy, as told through a small-town bowling tournament. It rocks.

  • Mack directed the industry reading of Eli Cohen and Mo Yeh’s new queer teen fantasy musical! (Nov 2023)

  • Mack was beyond honored to assist Trip Cullman on this revival. Working alongside the cast and creative team on this fearless work was a dream.

  • 2023 was a big spring for The Interrobangers and Mack’s very best judy, M Sloth Levine! Mack directed a developmental reading for their final fellowship project with Roundabout in May, and the team also had a reading with Theatre[Untitled] in June!

    About the play: Four groovy teens and a dog search the woods in their van to solve a mystery while exploring drugs, queerness, and the fear that men in rubber masks are scarier than monsters. The four question the world they know, looking into the parts of their history they would rather avoid.

  • Of course, Mack spent Summer 2023 at the Summer School for the Performing Arts! Mack co-produced the season of four musicals, four dramatic works, 36 short plays and three film productions. They directed Head Over Heels on the outdoor stage, and … may have later made a staff cameo as the La Vie Boheme waiter in RENT.

  • Mack was, as always, thrilled to join the folks on the Other World team as Hunter Bell’s associate in March 2023 as we brought to life the newest iteration of this piece!

  • middle school in massachusetts in the year 2007 was harsh, and Mack found a playwright with a 978 area code who understands!! So honored to have the trust of playwright soph/ie sagan-gutherz to develop their work, marked green at birth, marked female at birth with Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire festival in April of 2023.

  • Stoked to work with the folks at 24H Plays again, Mack directed a series of musical numbers in 2022’s 24 Hour Plays On Broadway! feat. Natalie Walker, Joel Perez, Larry Owens, David Hull, Chad Burris, and Libby Winters.

  • Mack was thrilled to join the team of the new musical: Other World (Book by Hunter Bell, Music & Lyrics by Jeff Bowen and Ann McNamee, Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, Choreo by Karla Puno Garcia) in its world premiere at Delaware Theatre Company. Mack was Associate and all-around cheerleader to Hunter.

  • Mack directed a virtual workshop of Insomniacs in collaboration with artists located across the country, and looks forward to the day this team can gather to build this piece irl!

    Streamed Dec 9-11, 2021

    About Insomniacs: Noah, Samir, Aubrey, and Mae just want to have their regular weekly brunch, but all four are about to bear witness to a literal miracle — and not a tidy, nice, Sunday School miracle, but a chthonic, unsettling rending apart of the laws of nature. Insomniacs is a surreal, intimate show about a mostly trans polycule in Brooklyn fumbling and failing towards forgiveness while haunted by visions of the end of the world.

  • Mack jumped on as a collaborator to director Ásta Bennie Hostetter on a workshop of Julia Jarcho’s postpunk Woyzeck piece. MARIE IT’S TIME premiered fall 2022 at HERE Arts Center

  • In June 2022 Mack worked with the folks at Parity Productions to develop M Sloth Levine’s mysterious, dynamic, very queer thriller.

    As Sloth puts it, At Hotel MacGuffin is “Drag, melodrama, noir, and cabaret combine into the feeling that you’ve been here before, you’ll be here again, and you’ll still be looking for that last piece.”

  • Mack spent Summer 2022 at their favorite place: The Summer School for the Performing Arts! This year, Mack spent five weeks as an administrator, educator, and director building American Idiot with the eldest students in the program.

  • Mack was associate director to David Mendizábal on the debut of Harrison David Rivers’ beautiful new work, the bandaged place at the Roundabout Underground. (Nov/Dec 2022)

  • Mack was Associate Director to Bartlett Sher on Sharr White’s new work. Pictures From Home premiered on Broadway at Studio 54 in 2023.

  • In early November 2021, Mack jumped onboard as an associate director for TheaterWorksUSA’s most recent workshop process of the works of William Steig, directed by Miranda Haymon. Written by Seonjae Kim, Sarah Einspaner, Miranda Haymon, with original composition by Ellen Winter.

  • In a humbling return to a live rehearsal process, Mack assisted Jenny Koons in the launch of Huntington Theatre Company’s 2021-22 season, Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George.

    There was bright bacchic dancing, butches, and biweekly antigen testing.