Biography
Taylor Mac - who uses "judy" as a gender pronoun - is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and producer. Judy's work has been performed in hundreds of venues including on Broadway and in New York's Town Hall, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, and Playwrights Horizons, as well as London's Hackney Empire and Barbican, The Kennedy Center, Los Angeles's Royce Hall and Ace Theater, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, The Melbourne Festival (Forum Theater), Stockholm's Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto Festival, and San Francisco's Curran Theater and MOMA. Judy is the author of many works of theater including, "Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus", "The Fre", "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music", "Hir", "The Walk Across America for Mother Earth", "Comparison is Violence", "The Lily's Revenge", "The Young Ladies Of", "Red Tide Blooming", "The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac", "Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam", "The Face of Liberalism", "Okay", "Maurizio Pollini", "A Crevice", and "The Hot Month" and the soon to be premiered plays "Prosperous Fools" and "The Hang". Sometimes Taylor acts in other people's plays (or co-creations). Notably: Shen The/Shui Ta in The Foundry Theater's production of "Good Person of Szechwan" at La Mama and the Public Theater, Puck/Egeus in the Classic Stage Company's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and in the two-man vaudeville, "The Last Two People On Earth" opposite Mandy Patinkin, directed by Susan Stroman. Mac is the 2020 International Ibsen Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama, a Tony nominated playwright, and the recipient of multiple awards including the Kennedy Prize, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, the Herb Alpert in Theater, the Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, 2 Bessies, 2 Obies, a Helpmann, and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. An alumnus of New Dramatists, judy has been a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop and the Resident playwright at the Here Arts Center. In 2019, Mac was named the first artist-in-residence for the multimedia platform, All Arts.
