Justin Anderson Taylor playwright

Justin Anderson Taylor playwright
[email protected]
415 722 7813
10 Court St, #1
New Haven CT, 06511
Original works for the stage (selected productions / readings)
2013 House Beast
dir Jack Tamburri
full length play
Carlotta Festival of New Plays
Yale School of Drama
2012 Basement Hades
dir Ethan Heard
music-theater
piece
Yale Cabaret and Norfolk Music
Festival
2011 Rodeo
dir. Ethan Heard
full length play
Yale School of Drama
2011 The Game Room
dir. Margot Bordelon
one-act play
Yale School of Drama
2010 Future Oprah Lovesong three one-act plays Yale Cabaret
dirs. Ethan Heard & Jack Tamburri
2009 Hospitality
full length play
(reading) dir. Stefanie Campion
Moving Parts, Paris
2009 Aureola,
full length play
(reading) dir. Dodd Loomis.
Playwright’s Horizons
2007 Le Cabaret ATC
dir. Sophie Bernhardt.
cabaret Libretto,
Théâtre de Menilmontant, Paris
2006 Le Grand Déballage,
dir. Sophie Bernhardt.
street theatre piece Toured throughout France
2005 Les Quatres Saisons
music-theatre piece Centre National de Théâtre,
presented by Jean Pierre Sarrazac
Paris
Translations
2012 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, one-act play, from the original French, written
with special permission from the Ionesco Estate.
2010 The Secret of the Last Breath, by Odile Beauvillain and Sylvie Messenger, Novel,
from the original French
Published essays
2006 “Big Time at the Paris Opera: after a fashion,” San Francisco Chronicle
2001 “Apocalypse Noe” Noe Valley Voice.
University education
Yale University – MFA in Playwriting, 2013, chair Jeanie O’Hare.
Playwriting training Paula Vogel, Ken Prestininzi, Sarah Ruhl, Doug Wright,
Deborah Stein, Donald Marguiles, Lynn Nottage
Paris III - La Sorbonne Nouvelle – MA Theater Studies; (mention très bien) Sept ‘07
Master’s thesis: Répéter à l’Opéra: Sellars, Haneke, Deflo Dir. Georges Banu and
Myriam Tanant
San Francisco State University -- BA Creative Writing, Cum Laude May '04
Playwriting Brihgde Mullins, Adam Bock, Anne Galjour
Internships / additional training
2012
Theater For Social Change In Tanzania
Lucid Body training with Fay Simpson (Yale School of Drama) and
Theater for Social Change with Mgunga Mwa Myenyelwa (Babawatoto
Action Theater)
2011 – 2012
Clown I, Clown 2, Shakespeare’s Clowns Christopher Bayes
2005 – 2006
The Paris National Opera
Directing Intern on the following productions : Tristan et Isolde, reprisal,
10/05 – 11/05 mise en scène Peter Sellars ; L’Amour des Trois Oranges
new production 11/05 – 12/05 mise en scène Gilbert Deflo ; Don
Giovanni new production 12/05 – 2/06 mise en scène Michael Haneke ;
Adriana Mater world premier 2/06 – 4/06 mise en scène Peter Sellars
2004 – 2005
Le Théâtre du Soleil
Training in the following : Acting and theatre creation, Ariane
Mnouchkine; Mask acting, clown and improvisation, Hélène Cinque;
Teaching experience
2013
Teaching Fellow, Yale College, playwriting; Donald Marguiles
2012
Adjunct professor, Wesleyan Universtiy, playwriting
2012
Workshop leader, Yale School of Drama, playwriting; Deborah Stein
2011
Teaching artist, Eugene Oniel Playwriting Program, Co-op High
School, New Haven, CT
2007 – 2008
Teaching artist, WICE institute, Paris.
Adult workshops. General Creative writing and personal essay.
2006 – 2008
Adjunct professor, Creapole School of Design, Paris. English.