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HEATHER TAYLOR (1977 - )
Nationality: Canadianemail: Click here to contact Website: Click here
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Heather Taylor is a Canadian writer & educator, whose writing has been published and performed throughout Europe & North America & she has been a host on Resonance FM & Sound Radio with guest slots on CKUA (Edmonton), CKUF (Victoria), BBC London Radio & Radio Canada International. Her full collection horizon & back was published by Tall Lighthouse in October 2005. As a writer/ performer, her work has been featured at festivals such as Camberwell Arts Festival, Harrow Festival, Kala Ghoda Festival (India), Runnymede International Literature Festival, and Glastonbury. She has also performed her writing at the Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol) and Guardian Newsroom as part of the Remember Saro-Wiwa project. Over the past two years she has toured the 2-woman poetry and music show, Accents on Words. It was launched at the poetry cafe in London in November 2005 and has since been performed at a number of venues, including The British Library with BBC2, BAC with Apples and Snakes, The Aran Islands (Ireland) and India with the British Council for Mumbai Poetry Live. As a playwright, Heather has been a member of the Advanced Young Writers Program at the Royal Court Theatre. Her plays have been seen at the Tricycle, Soho Theatre, Greenwich, the Pleasance, & Theatre 503. Her short film, The Night Before, has been made by Heart and Soul Films in 2007. She is one of the founders of Practicum Theatre (www.practicumtheatre.com).
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AARP, The Musical and Harriet 2.0 Accents on Words Clippings Drifting Flipped Coin home Hostage/ Bleach/ Burn In The Ring Intersection Pop-Dance-Tastic! Prisms World At OneAARP, The Musical and Harriet 2.0
Synopsis:
Resumes. Interviewing. Networking. Who knew job hunting could be so much fun? Letters to an AARP job coach
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1st Produced:
Goethe Institut - Main Stage, Washington DC Capfringe 13 Jul 2012
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Heather Taylor Media
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Comedy / Solo Performance 60 minutes
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Top of PageAccents on Words
Synopsis:
Accents on words is a two woman show featuring Aoife Mannix & Heather Taylor, containing a unique blend of poetry & music served up by two extraordinary voices. It will challenge emotions & help you laugh at the pain of being subsumed into so many different worlds at once. It's a lyrical journey through the wilderness of Canada, the glittering lights of New York, the smooth creaminess of Dublin & the chameleon mix of identities which are our cities today. Like tuning into radio waves, the sound of our voices contains the many echoes of where we come from. In the 21st century, in a time when we have become global travelers, most of us have more than one accent haunting our past. These accents are our labels, our broken love affairs, our history.
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Co-written by Heather Taylor And Aoife Mannix. Currently touring Around the UK And beyond. Has been performed in Inish Orr (Ireland), Mumbai (with the British Council), Brighton And London.
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Poetry Cafe 2005
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Tall Lighthouse
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One Act drama (poetry & music) One Act
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageClippings
Synopsis:
It is England poised on the brink of a new day with a bill about to be passed through parliament that will abolish the monarchy. Unfortunately, 15 year old monarchist Mark would do anything to keep them in place, including sacrificing his life for the cause. In 3 intersecting monologues, we witness Mark and politician David's thoughts the day before the bill is presented with Mark's mother Susan's thoughts in the aftermath of her son's actions. Embracing the idea of what is a hero, we see the journey of a mother, her son and a cutting edge politician in a world of pride, regret and final judgement.
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Short drama One Act
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageDrifting
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Greenwich Theatre, London, UK 2006
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Greenwich Theatre
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musical Ten Min
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageFlipped Coin
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This short puppetry piece is the story of how life isn't always how it seems by comparing 19th century letters to relatives with the stories immigrants send home - both of which aren't always based in fact but rather what you want others to think about your apparent success.
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Short Puppetry Play One Act
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Cil left home at 18 and swore never to return. In hopes to save up money to make a big move to South America, she goes back and finds herself slipping back into the familiar patterns of home. In the end she leaves the audience with the question - will she ever leave?
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Full-length drama
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageHostage/ Bleach/ Burn
Synopsis:
I'm not political. . . I've never voted. Not once. 45 years old and I never cared who ran things. It didn't matter.' - HOSTAGE; 'my dad said burn it. Burn it all. "I wouldn't step in that house even if it was disinfected with beach. So much bleach it turned white."' - BLEACH; 'When I was older, I knew what she was thinking. Another disgrace on her street. Ma mere just like her mother before.' - BURN . In a dark room in a distant, undisclosed country, a man held hostage by militants searches for absolution in each link in the chain of events that lead to his captivity. In another room, in a comfortable, westernised country, a young woman who fancies herself a free spirit discovers the real nature of the walls that surround her while deep in the heart of Montreal, a man weighs the weight of his existence after learning his whole life was based on a lie. These 3 one person shows spin tales of three people in different times and places trapped in their lives, trying to find out how they got there and where they can go.
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The three Are performed over one evening but can be produced seperately. It has been produced At New Place in St. Albans, UK (2006) And Camden Fringe, London (2007). It is Available for tours - please contact www.practicumtheatre.com for more details or if you'd like to have the show tour to you.
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3 One Person Plays One Act
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageIn The Ring
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"Sometimes you just gotta play the game". "Out there they'll believe anything ya tell 'em". In the Ring takes the idea of play and glitz, even farce and puts it next to issues of real danger, dignity and pride. Brick "the Brawn" Braunston is a third generation wrestler determined to be part of an organisation that he thinks will change the world - the ACW (American Continental Wrestling). His good guy standings are threatened when the organisation is taken over by the mysterious Mr. Black and Brick is forced to become a bad guy. Led into lying to his TV addict wife and to the rest of the nation, Brick continues his new role in the world of wrestling in the hopes that it will turn back into the organisation he grew up believing in. His world begins to deteriorate and his marriage, job and pride are in tatters. While the people around him can see the hopelessness of his situation, Brick hangs on and in the end, does the definitive stunt which ultimately costs him his life.
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Reading in 2005 At the Royal Court Theatre through Hindsite. Currently Adapting into A musical.
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2 act Play/Drama
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Top of PageIntersection
Synopsis:
How far would you go to get what you want? Exploring the ideas behind racism and terrorism, Intersection was written for the Forsite, Doing Lines Festival which was held at the Pleasance Theatre, 10-16 May, 2005.
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1st Produced:
Pleasance Theatre, London, UK 2005
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Forsite Writers
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Short drama One Act
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PagePop-Dance-Tastic!
Synopsis:
What would happen if Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were born in Essex and got married instead of fulfilling their careers? See their grasp at fame as they find themselves at the auditions of a new reality TV talent show - Pop-Dance-tastic!
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Short Musical Musical One Act
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PagePrisms
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At the age of 19, Joseph's mother was tragically killed in a motor vehicle accident. 20 years on, Prisms shows 3 ways his life could have gone depending on how he handled his grief - in a world of acceptance, anger or ultimate denial.
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A selection of Prisms was read As part of Cannot Be Undone by 808 Productions in Calgary, AB, Canada.
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drama One Act
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Top of PageWorld At One
Synopsis:
Messed up seasons, melting ice-caps and species hurtling towards extinction. Three short, new plays on GLOBAL WARMING'. Jackie Kane's play is set down a mine-shaft, Heather Taylor's in a flooded London and Rachel Barnett invents BANTS' a hybrid bee/ant colony set to inherit the earth.
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More than A reading but less than full production,this regular series Aims to entertain And engage while challenging modern times
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A.D Zeitgeist Theatre Company
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Genre:
short play
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