Shit-faced Shakespeare’s
Taming of the Shrew
Magnificent Bastard Productions,
October 2017 - Present
West Side Story
with Fiddlehead Theatre Co. at The Strand Theatre, Oct. 2015
Directed by Stacey Stephens
Lighting Design by Dan Jentzen
Costume Design by Stacey Stephens
West Side Story Resonates Once More • The Boston Globe
Mac Young’s flexible scenic design has a deliberately unfinished whiff to it — scaffolding extends into the orchestra section, a ladder leans against a balcony opera-box — that could imply the changing nature of the story’s New York neighborhood… Brick facades with cutaways prove a flexible environment for scenes set on the street, a pharmacy, and the apartment where Maria receives her forbidden lover in a balcony scene…”
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
By Katori Hall
At Lyric Stage, October 2015
Directed By Dawn Simmons
Lighting Design by Ian King
Costume Design by Lisa Polito
Properties by Stephanie Hettrick
The Trumpet of the Swan
Wheelock Family Theatre, October 2015
Directed by Shelley Bolman
Lighting Design by Annie Wiegand
Projection Design by Mac Young
Not Constantinople, by Arnie Reisman
A Walk In The Woods, by Lee Blessing
Part of the 2015 season at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse
Directed by MJ Bruder Munafo
Lighting Design by Jeffrey Salzburg
#JCSuperstar
with Fiddlehead Theatre Co. at The Strand Theatre, April-May 2015
Directed by Stacey Stephens
Lighting Design by Michael Clark Wonson
Costume Design by Stacey Stephens
Projection Design by Bryce Cutler
photos by Mac Young, Bryce Cutler, and mattmckeephoto.com.
Boxer Shorts
An evening of short works, comprised of:
Play by Samuel Beckett
New World Order by Harold Pinter
Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams
Personal Belongings by Diana Raznovich
Produced by Brown Box Theatre Project, April-May 2015
Directed by Kyler Taustin, Anna Trachtman, and Darren Evans
Lighting Design by Ian King
Costume Design by Amanda Ostrow
The Wiz
with Fiddlehead Theatre Co. at The Strand Theatre, Feb. 2015
Directed by Stacey Stephens
Lighting Design by Michael Clark Wonson
Costume Design by Stacey Stephens
Wizardry from Fiddlehead in this trip to OZ • The Boston Globe
Set designer Mac Young begins with a bare-bones Kansas, nothing more than a picket fence and a clothesline and a scarecrow… when the tornado strikes, the sky turns lurid green and fills with wheels of the kind that biblical prophet Ezekiel saw, as well as cogs and gears and clock faces and flywheels. Young’s Oz is enmeshed in the Industrial Revolution, even as the citizens of the Emerald City, with their top hats and white wigs and outlandish white costumes, resemble the creations of a Victorian Fellini.”
Kansas City Swing, by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan
At the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse August 2014
Directed by Ricardo Khan
Lighting Design by Katy Atwell
Installation/gallery space designed for the Consenses project, August 2014.
Vinegar Tom, by Caryl Churchill
Produced by Whistler in the Dark, at the Boston Centre for the Arts, Jan-Feb 2013
Directed by Mac Young
Lighting Design by PJ Strachman
Costume Design by Emily Woods Hogue
Musical Arrangements by Veronica Barron and Tony Leva
Violence Choreography by John Robichau and Marcus Watson
Photos: Meg Taintor, PJ Strachman
Fair warning: some of these images depict a staged hanging, and may be disturbing.
Something Churchill This Way Comes • The Hub Review
As you may have guessed by now, Vinegar Tom defies classification. But then Churchill was never one to value formal consistency for its own sake, and the Whistler production is so imaginative, forceful and focused that the rough joints and seams in her conception didn’t seem to matter much…
The lion’s share of props, however, I feel must go to director and designer Mac Young, a protean talent on the fringe who actually built for this production (in a rehearsal hall of the BCA, no less) a full-sized, completely structural - though utterly off-kilter - house frame, whose raw joists make the perfect setting for the scrapes of Churchill’s script. Director Young and costumer Emily Woods Hogue have even dreamt up a trick by which Churchill’s witches are hanged, quite convincingly, before our horrified eyes (although they soon spring back to life for a disconcerting vaudeville routine).
Classic Repertory Company’s 2012-2013 Season tour:
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
To Kill A Mockingbird,adapted by Christopher Sergel, based on the novel by Harper Lee
Produced by New Repertory Theatre, October-November 2012, March-April 2013
CRC tours professional productions of classic and relevant works of literature to schools, colleges, and the community throughout New England.
Directed by Clay Hopper
Costume Design by Emily Woods Hogue
Photos: Chris McKenzie
Artwork for posters and marketing material for Whistler in the Dark’s 2012-13 season.
The approach, if not the intention, is hugely inspired by Lori Nix, Thomas Doyle, Mark Giai-Miniet, Guy Laramee, and several other brilliant artists working in miniature.
M2 (Molière Squared)
a repertory production of Amphitryon and A Doctor in Spite of Himself, by Molière
Produced by imaginary beasts at the BCA Black Box, May-June 2010
Directed by Matthew Woods
Lighting Design by Bailey Costa
Costume Design by Cotton Talbot-Minkin
Tennessee Williams: Original Acts, by Tennessee Williams
At The Vineyard Playhouse, July-Aug 2011
Directed by Joann Green-Breuer
Lighting Design by Fred Hancock
Costume Design by Amy Sabin