Taylor Mac "The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac"

Photo Credit: Drew Geraci

Hailed by The New York Press as “one the best performers (and freaks) the city has to offer,” Taylor Mac is a theatre artist working in the genre of pastiche. His most recent works are the solo-pastiche, “The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac” (The Sydney Opera House, NYC’s The Public Theatre in the Newman, London’s Soho Theatre, Stockholm’s Sodre Teatern, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, Portland’s Time Based Arts Festival, and over 40 additional theatres all around the globe) and his 12-member ensemble musical pastiche “Red Tide Blooming” (with puppets by Basil Twist, Performance Space 122). Expect to see Taylor’s upcoming 16-member musical bonanza flowergory, “The Lily’s Revenge” in the fall of 2008. Vintage Press, New York Theatre Experience, Smith and Kraus, and Allworth Press have published his plays/work and he is the recipient of three Best Show awards from the Brighton Festival (The Latest 7, The Argus Angel, and The Best of the Fringe), The Edinburgh Festival’s Herald Angel Award, PS 122’s first ever Ethyl Eichelberger Award for artistic excellence, an Edward Albee Foundation Residency, the Franklin Furnace and Peter S. Reed Grants, The Ensemble Studio Theatre’s New Voices Fellowship in playwrighting, A Mabou Mines Suite (with collaborator Elizabeth Swados) and he is currently a HERE Arts Center Resident Artist and a member of New Dramatists.