Mary Grace McNally

Mary Grace is a multi-hyphenate creative, working as a creative director, choreographer, movement director, and dance artist, specializing in designing dynamic, movement-infused events, evening-length shows, music visuals and short films. She is represented by Bloc LA/NYC.

Her choreographic credits include two evening-length shows, Not For Picking and When It Falls, which premiered in New York City and Los Angeles respectively. Mary Grace is the founder and creative director of MG + Artists, a project-based dance collective. Her work has been presented at The Joyce Theater, The Dance Gallery Festival, Dixon Place, Young Choreographer’s Festival, Centre National de la Danse in France, and deSingel in Belgium. In 2018, Mary Grace was honored to be the winner of the Capezio A.C.E. Award. Her choreography can be seen in feature film, Sugar Baby, starring Mary Beth Barone, and a new slasher movie musical, Prom Party Massacre. She was the movement director for short films, The Burning Hallucinations…, Bloom, and Alex in Wonderland, as well as Ryan McGinley Studios. She also choreographed and collaborated with comedian and actor Benito Skinner on a promotional short for his podcast with Mary Beth Barone, Ride.

As a dancer, she has performed the work of Monika Felice Smith, Jon Rua, Doug Varone, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Katie Swords-Thurman, Emma Portner, Erica Sobol and Ryan Spencer. She has studied with artists such as Medhi Walerski, Jesse Zaritt, Douglas Becker, Adi Salant, Jermaine Spivey, Spenser Theberge, and Tilman O’Donnell. She performed at Madison Square Garden for Phish’s 2020 NYE Concert, and can be seen dancing in music videos for Lauv, OneRepublic and Angel Olsen. She has acted and danced in commercials for Microsoft and Splash Blast Water.

Mary Grace is a guest educator and choreographer at competitive dance studios, conventions, and universities across the country. She is guest faculty at Movement Lifestyle, Steps On Broadway, TMilly TV: The Studio, Broadway Dance Center, and Peridance Capezio Center. 

Mary Grace holds a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts.