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Directing (Theatre): Andorra, Angels Fall, Bad Dog, The Berliner Faustus, Chained to Freedom, A Company of Wayward Saints, The Crucible, The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch, The Diviners, Fool of Hearts, The Importance of Swinging Earnest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Naked Macbeth, Peter Pan, The Revelation Circus.

Directing (Cabaret): “The Fabulous Pink Flamingos: Last Call at the XMAS Lounge,” “The Fabulous Pink Flamingos: Live from the Lu’au Lounge,” “Revival! The Gospel According to The Fabulous Pink Flamingos,” “Jaron Vesely: Something Good.”

In 2006 Taylor received the Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing for “The Fabulous Pink Flamingos: Live from the Lu’au Lounge.”

Playwrighting: Book, Music and Lyrics (in collaboration with Virginia Rudolph) for Fool of Hearts, the book for the musicals Come by Here, Far Away Places, Hollywood Hallelujah, Sons of Adam/Daughters of Eve, and Waiting on Blue, the one act “A Metaphysical Fairy.”

Acting: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), Picasso at The Lapin Agile (Freddy), The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd (Cocky), Oklahoma! (Ali Hakem), P.S. Your Cat Is Dead (Jimmy/Vito), Fool of Hearts (Fool). He has also served his mandatory time singing and dancing in productions of Fiddler on the Roof, Godspell, Guys and Dolls, and Hello Dolly.

Taylor’s theatre-adjacent career includes work as: “Fuzzy” the Singing Cop at Disneyland, a walking puppet theatre at Knott’s Berry Farm, an improviser at the L.A. Connection, a day care worker, a Sunday School teacher, a Bible salesman, and a graphic artist.

2005 saw the release of Taylor’s EP Familiar Stranger: Songs by Phyl Fraser, and in 2007 he co-produced the award winning Fabulous Pink Flamingos’ Songs from the Lu’au Lounge.

In seventh grade he was voted “Most Humorous” by Mrs. Argebright’s Speech and Drama Class. He has been trying to live up to the honor ever since.