2017 House Programs Taylor Mac: The Inauguration | Page 3

BIOGRAPHIES
TAYLOR MAC
Taylor Mac (who uses “judy”, lowercase sic, not as
a name but as a gender pronoun) is a playwright,
actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist,
director and producer. “A critical darling of
the New York scene” (New York Magazine),
judy’s work has been performed at New York
City’s Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre and
Playwrights Horizons, London’s Hackney
Empire, Los Angeles’s Royce Hall, Minneapolis’s
Guthrie Theatre, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre,
the Sydney Opera House, Boston’s American
Repertory Theatre, Stockholm’s Sodra Theatren,
the Spoleto Festival, San Francisco’s Curran
Theatre, MOMA and literally hundreds of other
theatres, museums, music halls, opera houses,
cabarets, and festivals around the globe.
Judy is the author of 17 full-length plays and
performance pieces including A 24-Decade
History of Popular Music (2017 Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for Drama, Kennedy Prize for Drama),
Hir (placed on the top ten theatre of 2015 lists of
The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Time
Out NY; published by Northwestern University
Press and in American Theatre Magazine), The
Lily’s Revenge (Obie Award), The Walk Across
America for Mother Earth (named One of the Best
Plays of 2011 by The New York Times), The Young
Ladies Of (Chicago’s Jeff Award nomination for
best solo), Red Tide Blooming (Ethyl Eichelberger
Award), and The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac (Edinburgh
Festival’s Herald Angel Award). Recent acting
roles include Shen Teh/Shui Ta in The Foundry
Theatre’s production of Good Person of Szechwan
at La Mama and the Public Theatre (for which
judy received Lucille Lortel and Drama League
Award nominations), Puck/Egeus in the Classic
Stage Company’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream,
the title role in various productions of judy’s play,
The Lily’s Revenge, and opposite Mandy Patinkin
in the two-man vaudeville, The Last Two People
On Earth, directed by Susan Stroman.