A self-uprooted lily goes on a quest to combat its oppressors and destroy nostalgia!  In his latest work, playwright and actor Taylor Mac responds to an ever-growing homogeny in the world around him.  Through puppets, elaborate costume designs, live music, and vaudevillian theatrics Mac brings back the macabre, and reveals our national pastime of melancholy remembrances. Named one of New York's best in 2007 by both The Village Voice and The New York Press, Taylor Mac is a theatre artist working in the genre of pastiche.

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The Lily's Revenge - Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac’s approach to theatre stems from a belief that people are an amalgamation of definitions and ideas.  We are a culmination of a past altered and/or forgotten as well as a future we obsessively imagine.  Our DNA is enriched with age and variance.  We move around in multifaceted gender, race, and emotions.  We are hateful and wonderfully loving, greedy and giving, scared witless and tremendously brave in our intelligence – all at the same time.

As a result his work is primarily a response to and an exploration of homogeneity.  Combining various genres and techniques, he writes solo and ensemble plays that juxtapose stream-of-consciousness images from such topics as the masculine "War on Terror", white appropriation of black culture, and patriarchy in romance. By showing the duality of human beings – and having that duality reflected in the text, aesthetic, and performance style – he provides a balance to our adoration of sameness.

Taylor Mac creates both large-ensemble performance plays and solo-works. In 2007 the Village Voice, Time Out, and The New York Press named him one of New York’s best.  His plays have been presented in literally hundreds of venues all over Europe, Australia, and the United States including: The Sydney Opera House, Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, London's Soho Theatre, Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, Portland's Time Based Arts Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, The San Francisco MOMA, and upcoming at The Spoleto Festival. Taylor has performed solo for the BBC and has been a guest artists for Fischerspooner, Nina Hagen, The Dresden Dolls, the Olivier Award winning “C’est Duckie”, Weimar NY, and many more.  Quite possibly he’s the only performer in the world to work with Karen Finley and Mandy Patinkin.  Vintage Press, New York Theatre Review, New York Theatre Experience have published his texts and he is the recipient of The Edinburgh Festival's Herald Angel Award, a GLAAD Media Nomination, three Brighton Best of Festival awards, PS 122's first ever Ethyl Eichelberger award, a NYSCA Grant, The Franklin Furnace Grant, a Peter S. Reed Grant, EST’s New Voices Fellowship, A Mabou Mines Suite (with collaborator Elizabeth Swados) and he is currently a HERE Arts Center Resident Artist and a member of New Dramatists.