Taylor Mac
Taylor Mac
Taylor Mac visited the University of Iowa campus April 26, 2018 and had a conversation with author Garth Greenwell in the Creative Matters series co-sponsored by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research and Hancher. Below are stories, text, photos, and other materials chronicling and related to the visit.
Taylor Mac “doesn’t just defy categorization; he makes the categories themselves seem irrelevant” (Time Out New York). As a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, and performance artist, Mac has created internationally award-winning performance events that at once provoke and embrace diverse audiences for nearly two decades.
The University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium commissioned the 1864 to 1856 decade of the 24-Decade History, and in April of 2018 Mac performed an abridged version of the work in Iowa City. Two days before the performance, I interviewed Mac at Hancher’s Straus Hall for the Creative Matters Lecture Series. The exchange below is an edited version of that discussion, with thanks to the University of Iowa.
Hero’s Journey: An Interview with Taylor Mac
Photos by Miriam Alarcon Avila.
Creative Matters is an initiative of the UI Arts Advancement Committee and is sponsored by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research.
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