It also offers one-day workshops on performance & stage techniques. Theatre Bio in "More/About" section. Allen Taylor – Theatre Biography
W. Allen Taylor’s theatre career began in 1979, and includes performances in many regional theatres around the country, as well as in NYC, with such critically acclaimed off-Broadway theatres as the Negro Ensemble Company and La Mama E.T.C. He has also be
en seen on Broadway in August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars”, and has appeared on network television and in feature films. In addition, Allen co-founded the O’lac Repertory Ensemble, an Audelco Award- nominated theatre company in NYC, dedicated to producing original plays by African-American playwrights. He served as co-producer and performed with this off-off Broadway company for seven years. His solo show, "In Search Of My Father...Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins", which he wrote and performed, made its professional debut at the Marsh Theatre in Berkeley, CA in 2006 and won the Best Solo-Performance Award from the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. The play was also nominated for an Audelco Award for Best Solo-Performance in NYC, 2007. www.walkintalkin.com
Allen received his MFA from the American Conservatory Theatre, and has served on the theatre faculties of the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Laney College, and the College of Marin. At COM, he taught acting & directing, and retired in 2016 as a full-time professor and former Drama department chair. He continues to work independently as an acting teacher and acting/audition coach with his DramaGriot Acting Classes & Coaching services.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
Representative list of plays directed:
-The Wiz (East Bay Center -Arsenic and Old Lace (COM)
for the Performing Arts) -Working (COM)
-Mixed Babies (EBCPA) -Fences (COM)
-X-Change on Central Ave. (EBCPA) -Othello (COM)
-Antigone (Laney College) -Death of a Salesman (COM)
-Hot L Baltimore (Laney) -Tartuffe (COM)
-No Place to be Somebody (Laney) -The Cherry Orchard (COM)
-Diary of Anne Frank (COM) -Macbeth (COM)
-A Raisin in the Sun (COM) -A Streetcar Named Desire (COM)
-The Crucible (COM) -Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (COM)
-The Zoo Story (COM) -The American Dream (COM)
