Short bio (150 words)

Annette Daniels Taylor, is an award winning theater artist, poet, and artist-filmmaker. The author of the children's series The Marvelous Marvella J.Q: Marvella Finds Her Magic (west44books, 2022) about an Afro-latina who talks to animals, and her novels in verse, Shoot the Storm (west44books, 2022) and Dreams on Fire (west44books, 2018). As a filmmaker Annette's cinematic poems are screened and exhibited internationally. Her poems are featured in The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries Buffalo, New York's 15th Three Poems chapbook series. Other titles include Street Pharmacist and other poetic tales; and Hush now, poems to read aloud.
Annette teaches Writing for Broadcast at SUNY Buffalo State College Communication Department and Acting with D'Youville University's Dramatic Theater Arts MFA program and is a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employee Program.

Long bio (500 words)

Annette Daniels Taylor, is storyteller using several disciplines to share stories.
She is the author of the children's novel series The Marvelous Marvella J.Q: Marvella Finds Her Magic (west44books, 2022) about an Afro-latina who talks to animals. Her novels in verse, Shoot the Storm (west44books, 2022) and Dreams on Fire (west44books, 2018) explore juvenile justice through the eyes of Aaliyah and Shanequa teenagers who live on Buffalo’s east side.
Annette is the featured poet in The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries Buffalo, New York's 15th Three Poems chapbook series. Other titles include Street Pharmacist and other poetic tales; and Hush now, poems to read aloud. An award winning playwright, her drama A Little Bit of Paradise, won an Artie Award for Outstanding New Play. Her poems have been published in the Buffalo News, The Challenger Community News, and The Mom Egg.
A recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employee Program, Annette works with GLOW Creatives. A group of ten New York artists developing collaborative artwork through Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, and Wyoming Counties Arts Councils.
Other honors include New York State Public Humanities fellow, Arthur A. Schomburg fellow, and Lincoln Center Education Leadership fellow; a four time NYSCA DEC grant awarded artist; a Pink Door Poetry fellow; a founding Underground Railroad Residency of Western New York program teaching artist with Young Audiences.
Annette teaches Writing for Broadcast at SUNY Buffalo State College Communication Department and Acting with D'Youville University's Dramatic Theater Arts MFA program. She is a MFA candidate with University at Buffalo Department of Media Study.

CONTACT

In-school & after-School programs:
  www.Goart (dot) com

Reading, screenings, queries:
​AnnetteDanielsTaylor (at) gmail (dot) com 

Voice acting:
​All Coast Talent, info (at) allcoasttallent (dot) com; 716-836-4339

Media:  click links to read more

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/

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