Directing: Bad Dog,
Angels Fall, The
Revelation Circus: A King James
Primer, Naked Macbeth, The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch, The Berliner
Faustus, The Importance of Swinging Earnest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Andorra, Peter Pan, The Crucible, A Company of Wayward Saints, The
Diviners, Fool of Hearts.
In 2006 Taylor received the Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Achievement in Direction for The Fabulous Pink
Flamingos: Live from the
Lu’au Lounge.
He
served as book writer on five musicals: Waiting on Blue, Far
Away Places, Hollywood Hallelujah, Sons of Adam Daughters of Eve, and
Come by Here, all performed during his stint as a High School
Drama Teacher, as well as co-writing the book for the musical Fool of Hearts with Virginia
Rudolph.
As
an actor, Taylor’s work includes: 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), and Fool of Hearts (Fool).
He
has also served his mandatory time singing and dancing in productions
of Godspell, Hello Dolly, Fiddler on the Roof, and Guys
and Dolls.
Taylor's theatre-adjacent career includes stints 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.
In 2005, he released his first CD Familiar Stranger: Songs by Phyl Fraser.
In
1975 he was voted “Most Humorous” by Mrs. Argebright’s Seventh Grade
Speech and Drama Class. He has been trying to live up to the honor ever
since.
