06/01/2025
Introducing Gerrad Alex Taylor and Shaquan Pearson! Gerrad is our Fight Choreographer and Shaquan is our Intimacy Choreographer for SALTY.
Gerrad Alex Taylor is an award-winning director and multidisciplinary theatre artist based out of the Greater Baltimore region and an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His current creative work and research centers around creating space that preserves history and celebrates culture of the Global Majority. In 2021 he was named one of Baltimore’s “40 Under 40” by the Washington Business Journal. In 2020, he founded Chesapeake Shakespeare’s Black Classical Acting Ensemble (BCAE), an affinity space for black actors interested in training and exposure of the “classics” and what an expansion of the classical canon may look like today. In 2024, Gerrad joined colleague Lizzi Albert to take on the roles of Co-Artistic Directors of Perisphere Theater in Montgomery County, MD. He is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association and an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He has worked as a fight director with theatres and educational institutions across the country including the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Perisphere Theater, Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, North Carolina A&T, Davidson College, Common Thread Theatre Collective, and the Children's Theatre of Annapolis.
Shaquan Pearson credits include regional projects such as Public Obscenities (Woolly Mammoth; STEP MOM STEP MOM STEP MOM (InterAct Theatre Company); Much Ado About Nothing (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); RENT (Signature Theatre); Seven Guitars (Arena Stage).
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