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Short bio (150 words)
🎭 Annette Daniels Taylor: Professional Bios
The Short Bio (Approx. 150 Words)
for event programs, social media, and quick introductions.
Annette Daniels Taylor is an award-winning playwright, poet, author, actor, director, and artist-filmmaker. Her literary works include the Junior Library Guild Award-winning novel-in-verse, Dreams on Fire (2019), and her play, A Little Bit of Paradise, which won the Artie's Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play in 2008. As an actor, she is a recipient of the 2022 Artie Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical and was previously nominated for Best Actress in a Play for Ruined. She has worked at the Apollo Theater and on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. Daniels Taylor is a recipient of the 2022-2024 Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program Fellowship. She also serves as the Arts editor for the Buffalo Challenger Community News and teaches at SUNY Buffalo State College and D'Youville University's Dramatic Theater Arts MFA program
The Short Bio (Approx. 150 Words)
for event programs, social media, and quick introductions.
Annette Daniels Taylor is an award-winning playwright, poet, author, actor, director, and artist-filmmaker. Her literary works include the Junior Library Guild Award-winning novel-in-verse, Dreams on Fire (2019), and her play, A Little Bit of Paradise, which won the Artie's Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play in 2008. As an actor, she is a recipient of the 2022 Artie Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical and was previously nominated for Best Actress in a Play for Ruined. She has worked at the Apollo Theater and on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. Daniels Taylor is a recipient of the 2022-2024 Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program Fellowship. She also serves as the Arts editor for the Buffalo Challenger Community News and teaches at SUNY Buffalo State College and D'Youville University's Dramatic Theater Arts MFA program
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The Long Bio (Approx. 500 Words)
suitable for press releases, and speaker profiles.
Annette Daniels Taylor: Award-Winning Playwright, Author, and Artist-Filmmaker
Annette Daniels Taylor is a dynamic and celebrated storyteller, recognized as an award-winning playwright, poet, author, actor, director, and artist-filmmaker. Her work consistently explores themes of identity, class, memory, place, and public history, often focusing on the Buffalo, NY community where she is based.
Literary and Theatrical Achievements
In the world of literature, Daniels Taylor is the author of the novels in verse Dreams on Fire (2018), which won the Junior Library Guild Award in 2019, and Shoot the Storm (2022)... ...As an actor, she is known for her work in diverse productions, including a 2022 Artie Award win for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performance in Honky Tonky: A Woman's View of Country Music, and a previous Best Actress Artie Award nomination in 2009 for her role as Mama Nadi in Lynn Nottage's Ruined.
Her acclaimed play, A Little Bit of Paradise, premiered at Road Less Traveled Productions and won the Artie's Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play in 2008. Her performance credits extend across notable stages in New York and Buffalo, including the Apollo Theater, the Irish Classical Theater Company, La MaMa, and the Nuyorican Poets Café, in addition to being a wardrobe stylist and costume designer for clients including HBO and Queen Latifah from 1986 to 2010.
Film, Media, and Artistic Practice
As an artist-filmmaker, Daniels Taylor creates cinematic poems that have been screened and exhibited internationally at festivals and exhibitions such as the Buffalo International Film Festival and the Women Over Fifty Film Festival in the UK. She has studied media making with notable figures like artist-filmmaker Isaac Julien. Her practice also includes performance, poetry, video, and sound, and she has contributed original material to various stage productions.
Education and Teaching
Annette Daniels Taylor is deeply committed to education. She teaches Writing for Broadcast with Buffalo State University’s Communication Department. She holds a BA in Performance & Communications from Empire State College (2015) and an MFA in Media Arts Production from the State University of New York at Buffalo (2019). She has received several fellowships and grants recognizing her artistry, including being a three-time NYSCA awarded artist, a New York State Public Humanities fellow, and an Arthur A. Schomburg fellow. She is also a recipient of the 2022-2024 Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program Fellowship, with GLOW Creatives, a group of New York artists developing collaborative artwork across several Western New York Arts Councils to significantly contribute to the state's artistic ecosystem. Furthermore, she connects her artistic practice to journalism, serving as the Theatrical Arts editor for the Buffalo Challenger Community News.
suitable for press releases, and speaker profiles.
Annette Daniels Taylor: Award-Winning Playwright, Author, and Artist-Filmmaker
Annette Daniels Taylor is a dynamic and celebrated storyteller, recognized as an award-winning playwright, poet, author, actor, director, and artist-filmmaker. Her work consistently explores themes of identity, class, memory, place, and public history, often focusing on the Buffalo, NY community where she is based.
Literary and Theatrical Achievements
In the world of literature, Daniels Taylor is the author of the novels in verse Dreams on Fire (2018), which won the Junior Library Guild Award in 2019, and Shoot the Storm (2022)... ...As an actor, she is known for her work in diverse productions, including a 2022 Artie Award win for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performance in Honky Tonky: A Woman's View of Country Music, and a previous Best Actress Artie Award nomination in 2009 for her role as Mama Nadi in Lynn Nottage's Ruined.
Her acclaimed play, A Little Bit of Paradise, premiered at Road Less Traveled Productions and won the Artie's Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play in 2008. Her performance credits extend across notable stages in New York and Buffalo, including the Apollo Theater, the Irish Classical Theater Company, La MaMa, and the Nuyorican Poets Café, in addition to being a wardrobe stylist and costume designer for clients including HBO and Queen Latifah from 1986 to 2010.
Film, Media, and Artistic Practice
As an artist-filmmaker, Daniels Taylor creates cinematic poems that have been screened and exhibited internationally at festivals and exhibitions such as the Buffalo International Film Festival and the Women Over Fifty Film Festival in the UK. She has studied media making with notable figures like artist-filmmaker Isaac Julien. Her practice also includes performance, poetry, video, and sound, and she has contributed original material to various stage productions.
Education and Teaching
Annette Daniels Taylor is deeply committed to education. She teaches Writing for Broadcast with Buffalo State University’s Communication Department. She holds a BA in Performance & Communications from Empire State College (2015) and an MFA in Media Arts Production from the State University of New York at Buffalo (2019). She has received several fellowships and grants recognizing her artistry, including being a three-time NYSCA awarded artist, a New York State Public Humanities fellow, and an Arthur A. Schomburg fellow. She is also a recipient of the 2022-2024 Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program Fellowship, with GLOW Creatives, a group of New York artists developing collaborative artwork across several Western New York Arts Councils to significantly contribute to the state's artistic ecosystem. Furthermore, she connects her artistic practice to journalism, serving as the Theatrical Arts editor for the Buffalo Challenger Community News.
CONTACT
In-school & after-School programs; Reading, screenings, queries:
AnnetteDanielsTaylor (at) gmail (dot) com
AnnetteDanielsTaylor (at) gmail (dot) com
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Theater Talk: Annette Daniels Taylor, New AD at the Paul Robeson
By Anthony Chase & Peter Hall • Sep 25, 2020 https://news.wbfo.org/post/theater-talk-annette-daniels-taylor-new-ad-paul-robeson
Getting to know poet Annette Daniels Taylor, by Ben Siegel, http://buffalonews.com/2017/09/07/qa-getting-to-know-poet-annette-daniels-taylor/
By Anthony Chase & Peter Hall • Sep 25, 2020 https://news.wbfo.org/post/theater-talk-annette-daniels-taylor-new-ad-paul-robeson
Getting to know poet Annette Daniels Taylor, by Ben Siegel, http://buffalonews.com/2017/09/07/qa-getting-to-know-poet-annette-daniels-taylor/
Rochester-area poet brings words to life, by Christine Green, www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2017/02/24/rochester-poet-annette-daniels-taylor/98314336/
Poet to lead workshops in Albion, The Daily News Online,by Matt Krueger, www.thedailynewsonline.com/bdn05/poet-to-lead-workshops-in-batavia-albion-20170208
GO ART! holds opening receptions for three new exhibit Thursday,by Matt Krueger, www.thedailynewsonline.com/bdn05/go-art-holding-opening-reception-for-three-new-exhibits-thursday-20170202
Annette Daniels Taylor Erasure Poems and Wheat Pasting Poetry to Public School Walls,by Shayna Israel http://www.pluralitypress.com/editors-note/annette-daniels-taylors-erasure-poems-wheat-pasting-poetry-to-public-school-walls
Theatre Review: ‘Doubt: A Parable’ at Buffalo Laboratory Theatre , by Dianne Gebauer, nytheatreguide.com/2015/09/theatre-review-doubt-a-parable-at-buffalo-laboratory-theatre/
Fallen Angels at The Irish Classical, by Anthony Chase, artvoice.com/issues/v13n25/theaterweek.html
Toys Borrowers if a clever mix and fun and fright, by Ted Hadley, buffalonews.com/2013/03/19/toys-borrowers-is-clever-mix-of-fun-and-fright/
Onstage: Keeping theater alive How WNY is educating a new generation of audiences, by Donna Hoke, www.buffalospree.com/Buffalo-Spree/April-2013/Keeping-theater-alive/
Review of Best Christmas Pageant Ever, by Helena Robin, rochester.kidsoutandabout.com/content/review-best-christmas-pageant-ever-theatre-youth
Ujima's Latest, Ruined,by Anthony Chase, http://artvoice.com/issues/v9n38/theaterweek/ujimas_latest.html
Tell Me A Little Q & A, Buffalo News, by Jana Eiesenberg, buffalonews.com/2007/05/11/tell-me-a-little-qa-28/
Mayor Brown Proclaims Mamapalooza Day for Buffalo, www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/Mayor/Home/Leadership/PublicRelations/Archive_Press_Releases/2006_Archives/May_2006/MAYORBROWNPROCLAIMSMAMAPALOOZADAYFORBUFFALO_
Mamapalooza, Artvoice, artvoice.com/issues/v7n19/syt/mamapalooza.html
Celebrating Women in Buffalo, by Eileen Bukley, news.wbfo.org/post/celebrating-women-buffalo
Mamapalooza - Mothers Who Rock, Gabrielle Bouliane, www.buffalorising.com/2007/05/mamapalooza-mothers-who-rock/
Mamapalooza Rocks Buffalo, www.buffalorising.com/2006/04/mamapalooza-rocks-buffalo/
Stage Write, Local workshop brings playwrights together, by Donna Hoke, www.buffalospree.com/buffalospreemagazine/archives/2010_09/0910stagewrite.html
On Macbeth, Gender, and Glamazons, by Neil Garvey, www.buffalorising.com/2010/07/on-macbeth-gender-and-glamazons/
New Play workshop staged reading, by Gabrielle Bouliane, www.buffalorising.com/2007/03/new-play-workshop-staged-reading/
2005 last Gusto and 2006 first,www.buffalorising.com/2005/12/2005s-last-gusto-and-2006s-first/
Spoken Arts: Writer and Actress Annette Daniels Taylor, by Mary Von Vorst, news.wbfo.org/post/spoken-arts-writer-and-actress-annette-daniels-taylor