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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 |
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.
Plays by Taylor Mac
Be(A)St Of Taylor Mac, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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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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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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Hot Month, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Levee, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vital Theatre Company (New York, NY, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102756 | |||
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Genre: | 10-15 min Play/Drama | |||||
| 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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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
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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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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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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 play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays | |||||
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Red Tide Blooming | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | |||||
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| A musical celebration of freakhood gleefully subverting every rule of musical comedy. | |||||
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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 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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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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