Mack Gordon

Mack Gordon graduated from the Department of Theatre in 2008. While earning his BFA, he played roles in Guys and Dolls and The Street of Crocodiles – and it was while directing a play of his own creation that he met fellow student Kaitlin Williams. Mack moved to Vancouver after graduating, and has kept busy with a string of jobs in theatre, film and television. The two ended up marrying in 2011.

Since graduating, Mack has been nominated for a Jessie Richardson award for Outstanding Performance in Theatre for Young Audiences for his role in Carousel Theatre’s The Big League (2009), and again in The Cat in the Hat (2013) with Carousel Theatre. He directed a production of Neil LaBute’s Bash for Vancouver’s Hardline Productions, where the Vancouver Courier called his direction innovative and his decisions excellent. And he toured Wired, a play addressing the prevalent issue of cyber-bullying, across North America with Green Thumb Theatre.

2012 has been a productive year for Mack. He acted for eight theatrical productions (including The Best, Man! on the Fringe circuit; Mary’s Wedding at Shoreline Theatre in Kelowna; and Pacific Theatre’s adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, a two-hander where he acted alongside his wife Kaitlin). He served as assistant director for Glory Days (Boys Upstairs Equity Co-op), and his 2011 show Debts, which he wrote and directed for ITSAZOO Productions, returned for a second year. He also acted for Vancouver Film School shorts and a TV pilot called D3, and did extras work on the television shows Cult, Dark Universe, Fringe, Untold Tales of the ER, Operation Boomerang, and a Movie of the Week.

While he’s between traditional acting jobs, Mack makes a living by acting in simulations for various training programs. “[It’s] a unique and integral part of my training as an actor,” he says on his blog (mackgordon.tumblr.com). And as a newly minted full member of the Actor’s Equity union, audiences in Vancouver and across the country should be seeing more of this Phoenix alumnus in the years to come.