Taylor Mac
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Taylor Mac performing at Celebrate Brooklyn! in August 2015
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Taylor Mac Bowyer |
| Born |
August 24, 1973 Laguna Beach, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Cabaret, pop music, theater, musical theater |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, drag queen, Producer, Director, Writer, Actor |
| Instruments | Vocals, ukulele |
| Years active | 1994-present |
| Website | taylormac |
Taylor Mac (born August 24, 1973) is an American actor, playwright, performance artist, director, producer, and singer-songwriter active mainly in New York City.
Mac was born Taylor Mac Bowyer in Laguna Beach, California and raised in , the child of Joy Aldrich and Vietnam War veteran Lt. Robert Mac Bowyer. Mac's mother opened a private art school that influenced Mac's early aesthetic by embracing collage and teaching students to build from mistakes rather than attempt to erase them. Mac moved to New York in 1994 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. After graduation, Mac began working as an actor and wrote the plays The Hot Month (1999), The Levee (2000), and The Face of Liberalism (2003).
Mac's work has been described as a fight against conformity and categorization. It draws on forms such as commedia dell'arte, contemporary musical theater, and drag performance, and Mac has noted Charles Ludlam, the Theater of the Ridiculous, and theatrical history reaching back to Greek theater as professional influences. Mac's work has been performed at New York City's Lincoln Center, the Public Theater, the Sydney Opera House, American Repertory Theatre, Stockholm's Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto Festival, as well as many other venues both in the United States and internationally.
Mac is a self-described "fool" and "collagist" who puts together forms and costumes to create a complex and sometimes contradictory look and sound. Mac has resisted categorization by the press: after being described as Ziggy Stardust meets Tiny Tim, Mac created the show Comparison Is Violence, or the Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook.
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