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Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a Tony nominee (for Best Play), and the recipient of the Kennedy Prize (with Matt Ray), the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, a Drama League Award, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, two Obie’s, two Bessies, and the first American to receive the International Ibsen Award. Mac is the author of The Hang (with Matt Ray); Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music; Hir; The Fre, The Walk Across America For Mother Earth, The Lily’s Revenge; The Young Ladies Of; and The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac.

Taylor Mac is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a Tony nominee (for Best Play), and the recipient of the Kennedy Prize (with Matt Ray), the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, a Drama League Award, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, two Obie’s, two Bessies, and the first American to receive the International Ibsen Award. Mac is the author of The Hang (with Matt Ray); Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music; Hir; The Fre, The Walk Across America For Mother Earth, The Lily’s Revenge; The Young Ladies Of; and The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac. Boston area audiences last saw Mac’s world premiere of his play Joy and Pandemic at The Huntington and, prior to that in Boston, he performed in the two-man show The Last Two People On Earth: an Apocalyptic Vaudeville performed with Mandy Patinkin and directed by Susan Stroman. 

 

As of April 2026.