Taylor Mac

St. Taylor Mac is a MacArthur “genius”, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a Tony nominee for Best Play, and the recipient of the International Ibsen Award, the Kennedy Prize, the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, a Drama League Award, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, two Obies, two Bessies, and has the great honor of being bestowed Sainthood by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (naming St. Taylor Mac–along with judy's fellows Matt Ray, Machine Dazzle, Niegel Smith and Faye Driscoll–Our Theatrical Luminaries of Queer Synesthetic Sensorial Delights. Mac's patronage being hybridity, thus St Taylor Mac is, The Patron Saint of Hybridity).

Selected works include: Prosperous Fools (a Juvenalian satire on cultural philanthropy, longing to be a comédie-ballet about liberation); Sea Songs for the Butt Pirates, Widow’s Watch, and End of the Earth (a sing-along hang about queer sea towns, meant for pubs); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (a musical inspired by John Berendt's non-fiction novel, with a book by Taylor Mac and music by Jason Robert Brown), Bark of Millions (a fifty-five song—and counting—parade trance extravaganza for the living library of the deviant theme, with lyrics by Mac and music by Matt Ray), Joy and Pandemic (a realism play about an abstract art school); The Hang (a jazz opera Passion Play about the final hours of Socrates, with lyrics by Mac and music by Matt Ray); The Fre (a queer children’s play about loving after bullying, set in a ball pit); Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (a tragedy determined to become a comedy); A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (a 24-hour performance art concert about communities building themselves as a result of being torn apart); Hir (an absurd realism play about a changing America); The Walk Across America for Mother Earth (an anarchist adaptation of Three Sisters about activism, with music by Ellen Maddow); The Lily’s Revenge (a flowergory manifold about a flower who wants to be the center of the story, with music by Rachel Garniez); The Young Ladies Of (a paternal mystery); The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac (a ukulele confessional about the War on Terror); Red Tide Blooming (a freak-show musical about gentrification); The Last Two People on Earth (a two-man cabaret for seagulls about the joy of singing, created with Mandy Patinkin, Susan Stroman, and Paul Ford).

Films include: Whitman in the Woods (directed by Noah Greenberg, streaming on All Arts) and Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music (a concert doc directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, streaming on Max).