Playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac to speak at New Marlborough Meeting House event

New Marlborough — Resident, playwright, and performance artist Taylor Mac (who uses the gender pronoun judy) will speak about creativity at the New Marlborough Meeting House on Saturday, August 3, at 4:30 p.m. The Meeting House is located at 154 Hartsville-New Marlborough Road.

A Laguna Beach, Calif. native, Mac has had a storied career in the entertainment field. Among Mac’s many achievements is winning the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2017 and being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” that same year.

In 2019, judy was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play for “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus.” Recent projects include appearing as the title role in a New York City production of Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando,” as well as a musical version of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” at Chicago’s Albert Goodman Theatre. Scheduled to appear with Mac is Heather Christian, who is a Drama Desk Award and two-time Obie Award winner.

Christian is a singer, playwright, and composer working with judy on a musical about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: “Clarence, in a Pause.” “We are both unicorns in the American theater,” Mac told The Berkshire Edge. “There aren’t many people who work like us.

This event will be an opportunity for anyone who is interested in the craft of theater to come and listen to some of the different approaches to our craft and how we think about form and content.” Mac sa.