Taylor Mac

A.R.T.: The Lily’s Revenge. Mac is the author of seventeen full-length plays including the recent The Bourgeois Oligarch (a commission from A.R.T.), The Fre (premiering in 2017 at The Children’s Theater Company Minneapolis), and Hir (published by American Theatre Magazine and making its NYC premiere at Playwrights Horizons in the fall of 2015). As an actor Mac most recently played the title character in The Foundry Theater’s Good Person of Szechwan at the Public Theater (receiving Lucille Lortel and Drama League nominations), Puck/Egeus in the Classic Stage Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the title character in multiple productions of The Lily’s Revenge. Mac’s performance art concerts have headlined New York’s Lincoln Center, The Sydney Opera House, and literally hundreds of other theaters, museums, music halls, cabarets, and festivals around the globe. Some awards include: The Herb Alpert Award, an Obie award, a Helen Merrill playwriting award, a McKnight National Commissioning Award, three MAP Grants, a Creative Capital Grant, an Edinburgh Festival Herald Angel Award, and the first ever Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Taylor is a proud alum of the HERE Arts Center resident artists program and New Dramatists. For more information go to taylormac.org