Dominic Taylor is a writer/director and a new transplant to Southern California. He works all over the country and in a variety of forms. Last year, he directed Complicated Fun at the History Theatre in St. Paul, MN. He re-envisioned the classic of the Harlem Renaissance Purple Flower (adapted by Keli Garrett) in Boston, MA. He directed the opera Fresh Faust at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the cantata The Negroes Burial Ground at The Kitchen in NYC, and Ride the Rhythm in the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival. As a writer, he is presently commissioned by the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Sloan Foundation to work on a play on Ernest Everett Just. His play Hype Hero is recently published by Playscripts.com. It joins his other plays on this imprint, Personal History and Wedding Dance. His play Upcity Service(S) is published by Broadway Play Publishing. His play I Wish You Love was seen at the Kennedy Center, Hartford Stage, and Penumbra Theatre Company. He is the former associate artistic director of Penumbra Theatre. He is an alum of New Dramatists and a Usual Suspect with New York Theatre Workshop. He holds a bachelors' and a master of fine arts degree from Brown University. He is a full professor at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Dominic Taylor
Studios
Monday Music
Dominic Taylor worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…