Artist Bio

Mac Gay Anderson-Cooper

(Bio as of December 2021)

Mac Gay Anderson-Cooper (they/them, Associate Director) is a Chicago-based director and playwright. Associate and assistant directing credits include Objects in the Mirror, Carlyle, Having Our Say (Goodman Theatre); Moby Dick, Blood Wedding (Lookingglass Theatre); Tempest, Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). Chicago directing credits include Saint Joan (Greenhouse Theatre); Route (Aegis Theatre). International directing credits include Twentieth Century Way (Jermyn Street Theatre); Pomegranate Season (Camden Fringe); Take Flight (Theatre 503). Mac studied playwriting at Northwestern University and is an alumnx of the Jackalope Playwrights Lab.