Taylor Mac The Lily’s Revenge

Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac creates solo works and large-scale ensemble performances, including The Young Ladies Of, Peace, Red Tide Blooming, The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac and Cardiac Arrest, or Venus on a Half-Clam. These performances have been presented at such venues as London’s Soho Theater, Sydney Opera House in Australia, the Under the Radar festival at The Public Theater in New York, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival in Portland, OR, San Francisco MOMA, and the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina. His awards include the James Hammerstein Award in playwriting, the Edinburgh Festival’s Herald Angel Award, P.S. 122’s first ever Ethyl Eichelberger Award and the McKnight National Residency and Commission from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, MN. Mac won a 2010 Obie Award for his Creative Capital project, The Lily’s Revenge. Mac is a member of New Dramatists.

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Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2013

    Award

    Mac receives a MAP Fund grant

  • 2010

    Grant

    Mac receives a MAP Fund Grant

  • 2010

    Award

    Taylor Mac receives the 2010-2011 McKnight National Residency and Commission from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, MN

  • 2010

    Award

    Taylor Mac wins an Obie Award for The Lily’s Revenge

  • 2009

    Award Nomination

    Taylor Mac’s The Young Ladies Of was nominated for Chicago’s Jeff Award.

  • 2009

    Performance

    Mac’s “The Young Ladies Of” is performed at North Carolina’s Playmaker’s Repertory Theater

  • 2009

    Canadian Tour

    Mac’s “The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac” finished it’s tour of Canada including Vancouver’s Push Festival, The Pivot Festival in Whitehorse, Victoria’s Intrepid Theater, Toronto’s Rhubarb Festival, and Montreal’s La Chapelle.

  • 2009

    Nomination

    Mac’s play “The BeAst of Taylor Mac” nominated for a GLAAD Media Award.

  • 2009

    Residency

    Mac is HERE Arts Center Resident Artist in New York City

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