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Regina Taylor

REGINA TAYLOR

  (1960 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  represented by Bruce Ostler

Her acting credits include roles on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in numerous regional Theatres. Her film credits include CLOCKERS, LOSING ISAIAH, LEAN ON ME, A FAMILY THING, COURAGE UNDER FIRE with Denzel Washington and the NEGOTIATOR with Samuel L. Jackson. Television credits include CHILDREN OF the DUST with Sidney Poitier and the EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD. For her role as Lilly Harper on the television series I'LL FLY AWAY, Ms. Taylor won an NAACP Image Award and received the Golden Globe Award for Best Leading Dramatic Actress.

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         . . .And Potatoes         Behind Every Good Man         Beside Every Good Man         Between the Lines         Cherry Orchard         Color Purple, The         Crowns         Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, The         Drowning Crow         Escape From Paradise         Ghoststory         Inside the Belly of the Beast         Jar Fly         Jennine's Diary         Jubilee         Love Poem 98         Love Poems 97         Magnolia         Millenium Mumbo         Mudtracks         Night In Tunisia, A         Oblide         Oo-Bla-Dee         Post Black         Rain         Steel Hammer         Urban Zulu Mambo         Watermelon Rinds

. . .And Potatoes

Synopsis:
A crossword loving Chicago book publisher faces the challenge of how to adapt his business in the rapidly changing digital age and begins to look for clues of his own identity as a husband, businessman, and an African-American.

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1st Produced:
Signature Theatre Company
NY, USA    30 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Signature Theatre

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Play/Drama

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Behind Every Good Man

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Beside Every Good Man

Synopsis:
Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation

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Genre:
Phone Play

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Between the Lines

Between the Lines
After graduating from college, Becca and Nina set off on an unpredictable journey. While Nina stays home to pursue a career, Becca empties her trust fund to travel the globe. Soon Becca's adventures fuel Nina's discomfort with a life devoid of real passion, intimacy and romance. So when Becca returns, Nina's already primed to make a few radical--and violent--changes

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1st Published:
Humana Festival 1995: the Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus, 1995   978-1880399927

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  2 extras

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Cherry Orchard

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Alliance Theatre    -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Color Purple, The

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Notes:
wrote book

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Genre:
Musical

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Crowns

Synopsis:
A moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functioning. there is a hat for every occasion, from flirting to churchgoing to funerals to baptisms, and the tradition of hats is traced back to African rituals and slavery and forward to the New Testament and current fashion. Some rap but predominantly gospel music and dance underscore and support the narratives. the conclusion finds the standoffish young woman, whose cultural identity as a young black Brooklyn woman has been so at odds with the more traditional and older Southern blacks, embracing hats and their cultural significance as a part of her own fiercely independent identity.

Notes:
adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham And Craig Marberry

1st Produced:
Mccarter Theatre    2002

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play with Music

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Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  2 musicians

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Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, The

Synopsis:
about famed black entrepreneur madam C.J. Walker

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1st Produced:
Alabama Shakespeare Festival    -

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Drowning Crow

Synopsis:
In South Carolina two Afro-American families from differing social backgrounds

Notes:
an adaptation of Chekhov's the SEAGULL

1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre    2001

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Escape From Paradise

Escape From Paradise
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Notes:
Based on the play: "Jenine's Diary" by Regina Taylor

1st Produced:
Circle Repertory Company, New York    1994

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Women Playwrights - the Best Plays of 1992" published by Smith and Kraus 1993   978-1880399231

Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ghoststory

Synopsis:
A visit from an estranged husband forces a woman to confront the ghosts of her past

Notes:
Originally performed with "Jar Fly" and "Rain" under the overall title: "The Trinity River Plays"

1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago    15 Jan 2011

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Inside the Belly of the Beast

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Jar Fly

Synopsis:
An event shatters the life of a teenaged girl

Notes:
Originally performed with "Ghoststory" and "Rain" under the overall title: "The Trinity River Plays"

1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago    15 Jan 2011

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Jennine's Diary

Synopsis:
Vivid tales of family, career and romance illuminate the journey of Jennine through a maze of self-discovery and love. As she travels to "a dream called Venice," voices from her African-American past open cages within cages and find freedom within

Notes:
part of Various Small Fires

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Jubilee

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1st Produced:
Alliance Theatre Company, Atlanta, Ga    -

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Genre:
Musical

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Love Poem 98

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1st Published:
in Ten Minute Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Vol 3, Samuel French NY   -

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Love Poems 97

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Magnolia

Synopsis:
White landowner Lily returns from Paris to her estate in Atlanta, Georgia. It has hit hard times but Thomas a local businessman and descendant of slaves who worked on the estate has a plan

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov (Cherry Orchard)

1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago    14 Mar 2009

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Millenium Mumbo

Synopsis:
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Notes:
later changed to Urban Zulu Mambo

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Mudtracks

Mudtracks
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1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York    1994

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1st Published:
Contained in: "EST Marathon The Complete One Act Plays 1994" published by Smith and Kraus 1995   978-1880399835

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Night In Tunisia, A

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, Alabama    2000

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service 2005   978-0822219644

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Oblide

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Oo-Bla-Dee

Synopsis:
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Notes:
received the American theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award

1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre    1999

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Post Black

Synopsis:
In an airport, a 110 year-old woman encounters the post black generation, much to their surprise.

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the Ensemble Studio theatre And Going to the River have lined up some of the most gifted women playwrights of color - some new, some established - for A three-week presentation of nine short, under 10-minute plays in return of the series the River Crosses Rivers. the River Crosses Rivers II mixes established playwrights like Pearl Cleage And Regina Taylor with emerging playwrights France-Luce Benson, Christine Jean Chambers, Naveen Bahar Choudhury, Philana Omorotionmwan, Desi Moreno-Penson, Bridgette Wimberly And Cori Thomas.

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Genre:
short play

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Rain

Synopsis:
When her marriage fails a journalist leaves New York to go back to her mother's home. Mother has a shock revelation to tell her

Notes:
Originally performed with "Ghoststory" and "Jar Fly" under the overall title: "The Trinity River Plays"

1st Produced:
Theater Center, Dallas, Texas    05 Nov 2010

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One act

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Steel Hammer

Synopsis:
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Notes:
by Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux and Regina Taylor

1st Produced:
Humana Festival    2015

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc. in the book Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays.    -

Music:
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Urban Zulu Mambo

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Signature Theater Company, New York    2001

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Watermelon Rinds

Synopsis:
What happens to a dream deferred? Some pretty wild things, suggests this serio-comic expose of African-American family politics. As the folks salute Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, talk of the past heats up until Mama's repast explodes--literally! And all the while a young girl watches, struggling to understand a society that demands sacrifice but offers only promises in return

Notes:
part of Various Small Fires

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1st Published:
Humana Festival 1993: the Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus, 1993   -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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