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TAYLOR MAC |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency represented by Morgan Jenness |
Taylor Mac is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, and sometime director and producer. Time Out New York has called him, One of the most exciting theater artists of our time and American Theatre magazine says, Mac is one of this countrys most heroic and disarmingly funny playwrights. Taylor has performed his work and/or others at the Sydney Opera House, the San Francisco MOMA and Opera House, Magic Theatre, The Public Theater, Stockholms Södra Teatern, The Spoleto Festival, The Bumbershoot Festival, The Time-Based Arts Festival, Dublins Project Arts Centre, Londons Soho Theatre, and literally hundreds of other theaters, museums, music halls, cabarets, and festivals around the globe. He has acted in many original plays (by others), dozens of revivals, and in featured roles on television with BBC2, BBC4, MTV, and The Sci-Fi Channel. Awards, grants, and fellowships include: a 2010 OBIE, a McKnight National Commissioning Award, a Sundance Theatre Lab Residency, a NYFA Grant, two MAP Grants, a Creative Capital Grant, The James Hammerstein Award for playwriting, three Brighton Best of Festival Awards, a Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum Award for Best Touring Show, a Chicago Jeff Award Nomination, three GLAAD Media Award Nominations, an Edinburgh Festival Herald Angel Award, two NYSCA Grants, an Edward Albee Foundation Residency, The Franklin Furnace Grant, a Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, The Ensemble Studio Theatre's New Voices Fellowship in playwriting, a Mabou Mines Suite (with collaborator Elizabeth Swados), and the one he is most proud of, an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Vintage Press, Playscripts, New York Theatre Review, and New York Theatre Experience have published his plays; he was a HERE Arts Center resident artist; and is currently a member of New Dramatists.
Plays by Taylor Mac
24-hour Concert of the History of Popular Music | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #139612 | |||
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Genre: | musical concert | |||||
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Synopsis: | Taylor is creating a 24-hour concert of the history of popular music. Ultimately the concert will be 24-hours straight through but, in order to learn the over 300 songs hell be singing, he decided to break up the 24 decades his pulling music from (starting in the 1770s and going to the present decade) into shorter concerts. So far hes performed the 1970s, 1930s, 1880s 1770s, 1910s, and the 1940s. | |||||
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Be(A)St Of Taylor Mac, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joes Pub in New York. | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66274 | |||
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Genre: | Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
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Notes: | The Be(A)St Of Taylor Mac has played over 40 theatres including: The Sydney Opera House, New Yorks Public Theater, Yale Rep, Londons Soho Theatre, Stockholms Sodra Teatern, Dublins Project Arts Center, Portlands Time Based Arts Festival, Seattles Bumbershoot Festival and The Spoleto Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | The red glitter nipples and lips are the least of it. Tottering around on high heels, Taylor Mac looks like a cross between the blind angel from Barbarella and a snakehaired Gorgon. He likes to think of his one-man pieces as plays, while others insist on calling them performance art - which, he says, is 'just a funny way of saying drag'. For this compilation show, jokily entitled The Be(a)st Of Taylor Mac, the flamboyant New Yorker interacts with the audience, does smart little monologues and accompanies himself on the ukulele as he sings a series of witty, sharply observed ditties about love, longing and lesbian romance novels with surprising authors. From time to time his voice leaps unexpectedly to a falsetto as his delivery speeds up to a dizzying gallop. The songs are part Marlene Dietrich, part Lou Reed, but the overall effect is unique. | |||||
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Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam | ||
| 1st Produced: | FEZ in New York | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139609 | |||
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Synopsis: | A pastiche about wanting love and getting sex. Cardiac premiered at the now defunct FEZ in New York and subsequently headlined the Queer at HERE festival in 2004 | |||||
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Comparison is Violence or The Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joes Pub in New York. | 21 May 2010 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139607 | |||
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Genre: | concert piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | While praising Taylor Mac for his ukulele-playing and gender-bending performances, over 20 international publications have, of their own volition, described Mac as, "Ziggy Stardust meets Tiny Tim." Being a queen who can take a hint, he has decided to write and perform an original conversation about comparison, while singing Tiny Tim songs and the entire Ziggy Stardust album. It promises to be a concert unlike any other. | |||||
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Crevice, A | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139603 | |||
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Genre: | short comedy - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 human size rats | |||||
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Synopsis: | A 90-year-old Malthusian pediatrician and his ever-devoted nurse are caught in the middle of a cataclysmic event, which prompts the premature births of hundreds of babies. | |||||
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Face Of Liberalism | ||
| 1st Produced: | a basement bar on the Bowery | May 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139608 | |||
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Synopsis: | A mish-mash of original songs, parodies, stories, and mental illness. The Face of Liberalism ran for six-months, once a week, in a basement bar on the Bowery from May to October of 2003. | |||||
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Holy Virgin Mary of Our Time, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139605 | |||
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Genre: | musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Created at New Dramatists in the Composer/Librettist Studio. Lyrics and Book by Taylor Mac; Music by Edward Ficklin | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on true events surrounding the Sensation art exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum and Chris Ofilis The Holy Virigin Mary elephant dung controversy. Carravagios Death of Mary joins forces with Guadalupe Mary to introduce the newest art piece depicting the godly bride. | |||||
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Hot Month, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center Stage | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15444 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Taylor Macs first play (written in 1996) | |||||
Synopsis: | "A totemic necklace of teeth and the otherworldly beep of a heart monitor bind the three central characters (a woman, her brother, and his lover) in Taylor Mac's The Hot Month, a play that addresses the weighty issues of time and love with an ardent and humorous eye. The narrative follows the characters' efforts to get somewhere, but their declared physical destinations are ultimately less important than the metaphysical journeys they're taking. An uncommon and thought-provoking production." Flavorpill | |||||
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Levee, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chashamas Oasis Festival. | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102756 | |||
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Genre: | 10-15 min Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Paige returns home late one night and announces to her concerned husband, Keith, that a recent trip to the doctor has revealed that she is pregnant. But what would normally be cause for celebration stirs feelings of doubt and fear, as the couple has already suffered several miscarriages. Wanting to help put his wife at ease, Keith takes Paige on an imaginary ride into the future they both desperately want for themselves and their unborn child. | |||||
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Lily's Revenge, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Nov 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105321 | |||
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Genre: | 5 hour epic Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 30 - 40 cast members of any age, gender or ethnicity. | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Lily's Revenge is part Noh play, part verse play, part vaudevillian theatric, part installation, part puppet theatre, and part dance, in a site-specific extravaganza. Using flowers as a metaphor for queer (meaning different, not specifically gay) communities, Taylor Mac, with six collaborating directors and an ensemble of more than 40 performers and musicians, tells the tale of a flower's quest to become a manin order to wed its beloved bride. As the flower's journey unfolds, it finds itself at the center of a revolution of flowers intent on destroying their oppressor, The God of Nostalgia. A radical experiment in "genre-squishing," The Lily's Revenge is a multidisciplinary pastiche exploring themes of homogenization of city, culture, and community, marriage and gay marriage agendas, and the role of theatre as a catalyst for action. | |||||
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Live Patriot Acts | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 122 | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Imagine Festival '04. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139610 | |||
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Genre: | show | |||||
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Notes: | It was created, curated, and hosted by Taylor Mac with special guests Rinde Eckert, Julie Atlas Muz, Mike Albo, Fake Brain, Naked Puppets,The Dazzle Dancers, Dirty Martini, The World Famous *Bob*, Scotty the Blue Bunny, Brandon Olson, Tigger, Fritzi Collins, Helen Stratford, Lady Ace, Bradford Scobie (as Ukulele Louie), and Bitch providing their own divine madness material to the mish-mash. | |||||
Synopsis: | It took place during the Republican National Convention in New York and was a political vaudeville bringing together downtown subversives and spring break Americana. Audience members were allowed in for $5 if they wore Red, White, and Blue bathing suits. There was a tailgating community on stage: complete with lawn chairs, Old Glory beach towels, and Murray Hill cooking hot dogs on a George Foreman's grill. There was puppetry, dance, music, spoken word, giant seditious documentary photographs, a follow-the-bouncing-boobs-dressed-up-like-the-Bush-twins sing-along, and almost enough nudity to counterbalance the Madison Square Garden power-tie bonanza in honor of George W., just up the street. | |||||
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Maurizio Pollini | ||
| 1st Produced: | Blue Roses Theatre Company in the Samuel French Festival of One-Acts. | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139606 | |||
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Genre: | short play. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | In this play about parenting three scenes happen simultaneously: an Upper East Side mother and her vaginal activists (and 10-month pregnant) daughter get their monthly pedicures; a "Ghetto Fabulous" pedicurist wants to take her baby to see a piano concert in Carnegie Hall; and a past-his-prime Pritzker-winning architect, his male assistant, and his estranged heterosexual son play golf. | |||||
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Notions Of Belief | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Gayola - The Queer Up North Spiegeltent, Manchester | 30 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113873 | |||
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Genre: | Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
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Synopsis: | Post-modern neo-Romantic drag deconstructionist Taylor Mac flirts with the disengagement of belief in this new theatrical concert manifesto in the making. Moore's Paradox, cognitive dissonance, and Thomas theorem juggle with songs by Grace Jones, Magnetic Fields, Mac's brand new compositions, rants, educated guesses, and the obligatory faceload of glitter. With Lance Horn on piano. | |||||
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Okay | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84203 | |||
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Genre: | short comedy - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays. "Okay" can be performed as an ensemble play, a three-hander, a two-hander or a solo. The characters are all teenagers and the cast consists of 3 males and 4 females but great liberty can be taken in casting. Feel free to think outside of the "age" and gender box. Don't be afraid of theatrical casting choices. If you choose to cast gender and age appropriately that's great too. | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by (not based on) true events, Okay tells the story of a teenage girl giving birth in a bathroom stall during her senior prom. Set in May of 2003, the play is about the beginning of the end of the American empire. | |||||
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Peace | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #139604 | |||
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Genre: | short play. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 beetle | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aristophanes. written by Taylor Mac and Rachel Chavkin. One-act adaptation (with songs) of the Aristophanes play of the same name. . A workshop production of "Peace" was performed in the Target Margin's Aristophanes Festival at the Here Arts Center, NYC as part of commission of new works based on plays by Aristophanes. | |||||
Synopsis: | War has destroyed the land and a 75-year-old man and his two 12-year-old daughters are counting on their last chance of escape: a dung beetle (fed only pure, organic fecal seed) who can fly them to heaven. | |||||
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Red Tide Blooming | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 122 | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2007, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9670234-9-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60864 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
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Parts other: | cast of 12 | |||||
Notes: | Performance Space 122 as part of their first-ever Ethyl Eichelberger Award. | |||||
| In this musical celebration of freakhood, classic Mermaid Parade antics swim alongside a collective creative visualization of Armageddon in the murky waters of gentrification and cultural homogenization. A hermaphrodite sea creature goes on a quest to destroy the Collective Conscious and free the freaks from the dwindling down to same. | |||||
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Walk Across America for Mother Earth, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ellen Stewart Theater, La MaMa | 20 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123618 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Music By: Ellen Maddow | |||||
Synopsis: | The Walk Across America for Mother Earth combines Taylor Mac's exuberant theatricality with the richly scored work of The Talking Band to tell the story of a nine-month protest walk from New York to the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Eighteen and eager to flee his suburban conservative upbringing, Taylor joined this group of political activists, ageing hippies, baby hippies, punks, anarchists, dykes, radical fairies, men, women, senior citizens, and children on a nine-month walk across the United States. Re-told and re-imagined by Taylor, Walk asks its artists and audiences to take a second look at how the idea of community sometimes fails to unite us, and sometimes brings us together in the most surprising ways. | |||||
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Young Ladies Of, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Ethyl Crisp Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73342 | |||
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Genre: | performance work Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
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Notes: | Developed: Battersea Arts Center, London; Performance Space 122 and Dixon Place, New York. | |||||
Synopsis: | While stationed in Vietnam in 1968, Taylor Mac's father, then a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, placed an advertisement in an Australian newspaper asking women ages 19-26 to write him. He was soon flooded with letters of response from hundreds of young ladies anxious to meet Lt. Mac while he took his leave in Sydney. Almost 30 years after his father's death, Mac has unearthed these letters, which along with his own text, songs, and projections creates a conversation exploring patriarchy, war, romance, and fatherhood. Mac illustrates his Texan father's military life in 1960s Vietnam as well as his own life as a New York City gender-bending performance artist, while striving to reconcile the differences between masculinity and femininity, past and present, and red and blue states. | |||||
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