Gage Mace Oral History

I first met Gage Mace in 2020, though unlike most oral history subjects who might reach out to me once or twice following their recordings, Gage has kept in relatively frequent contact with me over the last five years, becoming a great friend of the Museum in the process. When he was last here for a public program in August 2025, I joked that he was the only individual to have achieved EGOT status in our Oral History Project. EGOT, which stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, was an acronym coined in 1984 to describe an individual who had accomplished the extremely rare feat of winning all four of the major performing arts awards in the United States. Gage Mace became the EGOT of the Oral History Project by participating in each of the available recording formats used by the project (and all within a five-year period). Gage recorded a telephone interview (2020), a Zoom recording (2021), a one-on-one onsite interview in our studio space (2023 - this recording), and a Living History public program (2025). In the thirty-six-year history of the Oral History Project, no one else has managed to do that. - Stephen Fagin, Curator