Taylor Mac

Bio

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 Theater, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, Boston’s American Repertory Theatre, Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, the Spoleto Festival, San Francisco’s Curran Theater and MOMA, and literally hundreds of other theaters, museums, music halls, opera houses, cabarets, and festivals around the globe. Judy is the author of seventeen full-length plays and performance pieces including A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, which was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama. This fall Mac will tour A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Abridged)—a “necessary and great American epic of our time” (The Los Angeles Times)—across the Northeast. Then in December, Mac will perform Holiday Sauce—the delightfully irreverent work exploring Christmas as calamity—in various locations across the country.