Taylor Mac - Original Music
One Degree includes performances by Rick of two original songs penned by renowned New York composer, performer, and playwright Taylor Mac. Mac earned a 2010 Obie for his show The Lily’s Revenge, and his 2011 play The Walk Across America for Mother Earth opened reviews in The New York Times. In 2007 the Village Voice, Time Out NY, and The New York Press named him one of the New York’s best. Other shoes and honors include: The Young Ladies Of (HERE Arts Center, NYC and GLAAD Media Award Nominee), Red Tide Blooming (Performance Space 122, NYC and Ethyl Eichelberger Award) and The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac (The Sydney Opera House, Under the Radar at the Public Theatre, London's Soho Theatre, Stockholm's Sodre Teatern, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, Portland's Time Based Arts Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, over 30 additional theaters all around the globe, upcoming at The Spoleto Festival and winner of 3 Brighton Best of Festival Awards and The Edinburgh Festival's Herald Angel Award). Mac is a member of New Dramatists.
Lee Biolos - Creative Producer
After working in Film, TV, and Theatre in Australia for two decades, Lee has recently returned to the U.S. and currently works as an actor and producer in Los Angeles.
A graduate from the University of Utah, Lee commenced his professional career as part of the original actor’s ensemble for the Sundance Script Lab. He served his apprenticeship at Actors’ Theatre Louisville, followed by performances in New York, Los Angeles and the Edinburgh Festival. He then relocated to Australia where he developed his skills as a producer, director, writer and teacher. In 1991 he was the co-founder and Resident Director at New Stages, the research and development wing of the Sydney Theatre Company for three years.
While there he produced and created Phaedra, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Just Bent, Furious (World Premiere), Women of Troy, Time and the Room, Titus Andronicus, Oleanna (Starring Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett), and Away (Starring Toni Collette).
During this time he also wrote and directed Inside the Rehearsal a play that was later re-mounted at the Sydney Opera House. His world premiere production of Sweet Phoebe (starring Cate Blanchett) toured Australia and also had a very successful run in London. He has worked as an actor and dialogue coach on many films including Kangaroo Jack, Dark City, The Year My Voice Broke and Howling III. Lee was Assistant Director at the Sydney Opera House for Iphigenie en Tauride, The Visit, Broken Glass, and was the dialogue coach on their two productions of Die Fledermaus, as well as a thurd recent remount with Opera Australia in Melbourne. Back in 1995 Lee founded the acting studio Practical Aesthetics Australia (www.paaustralia.com) that continues to teach an approach to acting developed by David Mamet and William Macy.
