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Taylor Mac

TAYLOR MAC

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by Kevin Lin

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 country's 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, Stockholm's Sodra Teatern, the Spoleto Festival, the Bumbershoot Festival, the Time-Based Arts Festival, Dublin's Project Arts Centre, London's 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.

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         20th Century Abridged Concert Of the History Of Popular Music, A         24-Hour Concert Of the History Of Popular Music         Be(A)St Of Taylor Mac, The         Cardiac Arrest Or Venus On A Half-Clam         Comparison Is Violence Or the Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook         Crevice, A         Etiquette Of Death, The         Face Of Liberalism         Hir         Holy Virgin Mary Of Our Time, The         Hot Month, The         Levee, The         Lily's Revenge, The         Live Patriot Acts         Maurizio Pollini         Notions Of Belief         Okay         Our War         Peace         Red Tide Blooming         Walk Across America For Mother Earth, The         Young Ladies Of, The
20th Century Abridged Concert Of the History Of Popular Music, A

Synopsis:
Over the next two years a bedazzled creature will build a community by singing 24 concerts of the last 24 decades of popular music. Ultimately all 24 concerts will be stitched together culminating in a 24-hour long extravaganza. To help prepare for the big concert, Taylor Mac and band will be performing an abridged version: music from the 20th century.

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1st Produced:
Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003     11 Jan 2013

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under the radar festival

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90 min piece

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24-Hour Concert Of the History Of Popular Music

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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 he'll 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 he's performed the 1970s, 1930s, 1880s 1770s, 1910s, and the 1940s.

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Genre:
musical concert

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Be(A)St Of Taylor Mac, The

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.
Robert Shore, Metro London

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the Be(a)St Of Taylor Mac has played over 40 theatres including: the Sydney Opera House, New York's Public theater, Yale Rep, London's Soho theatre, Stockholm's Sodra Teatern, Dublin's Project Arts Center, Portland's Time Based Arts Festival, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival And the Spoleto Festival.

1st Produced:
Joe's Pub In New York.    

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Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Cardiac Arrest Or Venus On A Half-Clam

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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Fez In New York    

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Comparison Is Violence Or the Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook

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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1st Produced:
Joe's Pub In New York.     21 May 2010

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Genre:
concert piece

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Crevice, A

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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Genre:
short comedy - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  2 human size rats

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Etiquette Of Death, The

Synopsis:
Death is a messy and terrifying horror. Or, it can be a quiet, unapologetic thief in the night. For the past twenty-five years living in the east Village Chris Tanner has been surrounded by death. He's obsessed with how the dying and those who love them behave in the face of it. When you explore the artifice and manners that surround this unruly journey - the etiquette of death - the outcome can be absurd, paradoxical, wrenching, and at times, hilarious. He's asked a group of artists he admires to help him put together a collage of scenes, songs, poetry, music and dance that explores the etiquette of Death.
- nytheatre.com

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Contributing writers And composers include Penny Arcade, Lance Cruce, Angela DiCarlo, Martha Girdler, Jeremy Halpern, John Jesurun, Beena Kamlani, Taylor Mac, Stephen McCauley, edgar Oliver, Brandon Olson, Greta Jane Pedersen, Jon Ritter, Penny Rockwell, Tony Stavick, Sebastian Stuart And Chris Tanner.

1st Produced:
ellen StewArt Theater, La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     14 Jun 2012

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Face Of Liberalism

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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A Basement Bar On The Bowery     01 May 2003

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Hir

Hir
Isaac is dishonourably discharged from the army and returns home. He finds that things have changed. The house is a dump as his mother no longer does any housework. His father has had a stroke and his mother has put him in a diaper, a dress and a purple fright wig and painted his face like a clown. His sister has had a sex change

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1st Produced:
Mixed Blood Theatre, Minneapolis     01 Mar 2015

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Northwestern University Press, 2015
Oberon Books (2017) >>>    

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Holy Virgin Mary Of Our Time, The

Synopsis:
Based on true events surrounding the Sensation art exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum and Chris Ofili's the Holy Virigin Mary elephant dung controversy. Carravagio's Death of Mary joins forces with Guadalupe Mary to introduce the newest art piece depicting the godly bride.

Notes:
Created At New Dramatists in the Composer/Librettist Studio. Lyrics And Book by Taylor Mac; Music by edward Ficklin

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musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hot Month, The

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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Taylor Mac's first play (written in 1996)

1st Produced:
Center Stage
48 West 21st Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10010     1999

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Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Levee, The

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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1st Produced:
Chashama's Oasis Festival.    

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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10-15 min Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Lily's Revenge, The

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.
- nytheatre.com

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5 hour epic Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  30 - 40 cast members of any age, gender or ethnicity.

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Live Patriot Acts

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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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.

1st Produced:
P.S. 122
150 1st aVenue, New York, NY 10003     2004

Organisations:
Imagine Festival '04.

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show

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Maurizio Pollini

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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1st Produced:
Blue Roses Theatre Company In The Samuel French Festival Of One-Acts.    

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Genre:
short play. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Notions Of Belief

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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1st Produced:
La Gayola - The Queer Up North Spiegeltent, Manchester     35/2010

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Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Okay

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.

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.

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short comedy - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Our War

Synopsis:
While the plays that took the perspective of participants were some of the most crisp, the last kind of play in the evening, plays that look at today with the eyes of the present (but through the lens or with the lighting of the Civil War), hit the hardest. Most of them use the Civil War as a way to talk about race in America, from Ken Narasaki's thoughts on racism that isn't divided into Black and White to Lydia Diamond's chastisement of White liberal guilt. - http://dctheatrescene.com/2014/10/28/war-arena-stage-resounding-success/

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An esteemed collection of American playwrights, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award, creates a dynamic new theatrical event reflecting on the repercussions of the U.S. Civil War. Through a rich tapestry of short monologues, a core ensemble of gifted actors, accompanied by notable Washingtonians such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Chris Matthews, explorethrough diverse perspectivesthe historical memory and present-day reverberations of the U.S. Civil War. Our War, commissioned by Arena Stage for the National Civil War Project, uses the power of live theater to bring new understanding to the shades of Blue and Gray that define one of the most significant periods of American history.

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monologue

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Peace

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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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.

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short play. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  1 beetle

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Red Tide Blooming

Red Tide Blooming
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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Performance Space 122 As part of their first-ever ethyl eichelberger Award.

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P.S. 122
150 1st aVenue, New York, NY 10003    

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Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Walk Across America For Mother Earth, The

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.
- nytheatre.com

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Music By: ellen Maddow

1st Produced:
ellen StewArt Theater, La MaMa
74a East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     21/2011

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the Talking Band

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Young Ladies Of, The

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.
- nytheatre.com

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Developed: Battersea Arts Center, London; Performance Space 122 And Dixon Place, New York.

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performance work Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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