Mac Watson is
Mac Watson is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer based in Los Angeles with occasional side quests in VFX. She recently made her directorial debut with the short film Last Laugh, which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. The film was financed through a successful Seed&Spark crowdfunding campaign and is headed to the 2026 festival circuit. The feature screenplay on which the short is based was a quarterfinalist in Screencraft’s Feature Competition.
Originally from Edmonton, Mac spent formative years in Toronto where she earned a degree in Political Science from the University of Toronto while training as an actor with Lewis Baumander, Michael Caruana, and Karen Ivany, and making short-form comedy videos—an early attempt to balance practicality with a lifelong obsession with movies. (Her first screenplay was feature-length, written at age 13 on the family PC, for a school assignment her English teacher very much did not request.) In 2017, she moved to the US to attend UCLA’s Producers Program, earning her MFA. While there, she wrote, produced, and starred in her award-winning student film Casanova, later optioning a pilot based on the project to a Canadian-American production company and pitching it to major networks in both the US and Canada.
Since graduating, Mac has built a wide-ranging career in film and television while maintaining her O-1 visa. Her experience includes producing short films and music videos, working at Participant Media, booking a role in a Lifetime movie (and through it joining SAG-AFTRA), and most recently working in VFX as a visualization coordinator on projects including Superman (2025), Captain America: Brave New World (2025), and Carry On (2024). She is also a writing alum of TRIBE, the inaugural writing incubator founded by Insecure executive producer Amy Aniobi under her company SuperSpecial.
[Check out her resume here.]