Taylor Mac (who uses "judy"--lowercase [sic]--as
a gender pronoun) is the author of Joy and Pandemic; The Hang (composed
by Matt Ray); Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; A 24-Decade History
of Popular Music; Prosperous Fools; The Fre; Hir; The
Walk Across America for Mother Earth; The Lily's Revenge; The
Young Ladies Of; Red Tide Blooming; The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac;
and the revues Comparison Is Violence; Holiday Sauce; and The
Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville (created with Mandy
Patinkin, Susan Stroman, and Paul Ford). Mac is the first American to
receive the International Ibsen Award; is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize
finalist, a Tony nominee for Best Play; and is the recipient of the Edward M.
Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History (with Matt Ray), the Doris
Duke Artist Award, a Guggenheim, the Herb Alpert Award, a Drama League Award,
the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, the Edwin Booth Award, two Helpmann
Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, two Obies, two Bessies, and an
Ethyl Eichelberger.