Biography of Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac is a theater artist who blends performance art, playwrighting, acting, musical composition, and direction to create solo and ensemble pastiches. He has performed in at least a hundred different venues ranging from The San Francisco Opera House to CBGB's and has shared bills with artists ranging from Tommy Tune to Nina Hagen. Work's include: Red Tide Blooming with puppets by Basil Twist and Choreography by Julie Atlas Muz (Performance Space 122, 2006), The Young Ladies Of (Performance Space 122, 2005), "Maurizio Pollini" (Samuel French Festival, 2005), Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam (headlining the Queer at HERE Festival and at FEZ and around the country, 2004), "Okay" (HERE Arts Center, 2003), "The Face of Liberalism" (Galapgos Arts Space and various locations, 2003), "The Hot Month" (Boomerang Theatre Company, 2003), "The Levee" (Vital Theatre, Chashama, Vox Humana, 2002). As an actor Taylor played his first Martian opposite C. Thomas Howell in the Sci-Fi Channel's original feature "Crimson Force" and has originated over two dozen roles in premieres of plays and musicals: most recently at The Flea in Elizabeth Swados' "Jabu", playing the title role in Kristin Marting's "Orpheus", and in Karen Finley's Make Love. For nine months, Taylor performed a different original number at his weekly East Village performance art party "DoppleBanger" and during New York's recent Republican National Convention, he created an evening of eclectic performance work with Rinde Eckert, Murray Hill, Mike Albo, and more, called "Live Patriot Acts: Patriots Gone Wiiiiiiild!" (Performance Space 122, 2004). Vintage Press, Smith and Kraus, Lodestar Quarterly, and Allworth Press have published his plays/work and he is the recipient of Performance Space 122's first ever Ethyl Eichelberger Award for artistic excellence, an Edward Albee Foundation Residency, a Peter S. Reed Grant, The Ensemble Studio Theater's New Voices Fellowship in playwrighting, a Mabou Mines Suite (with collaborator Liz Swados), a commission from Dixon Place, and is currently a H.E.R.E Arts Center Resident Artist.