Courtney Taylor is a playwright and speechwriter from Massapequa, NY. Her plays are offbeat and off-the-rails explorations of flawed and unhinged people facing down systems of power, with recent work at the intersection of pop culture and sexual violence in academia.
Her work has been recognized by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, SheNYC Summer Theater Festival, ScreenCraft's Stage Play Competition, and the J.L. Smith New Play Festival.
She was a finalist for Bechdel Project's 2022 Room of One's Own Residency, and is one of their inaugural Feminism Is For Everybody fellows. Courtney's work has been developed at Athena Project, Imaginarium Theatre Company, and The...
Courtney Taylor is a playwright and speechwriter from Massapequa, NY. Her plays are offbeat and off-the-rails explorations of flawed and unhinged people facing down systems of power, with recent work at the intersection of pop culture and sexual violence in academia.
Her work has been recognized by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, SheNYC Summer Theater Festival, ScreenCraft's Stage Play Competition, and the J.L. Smith New Play Festival.
She was a finalist for Bechdel Project's 2022 Room of One's Own Residency, and is one of their inaugural Feminism Is For Everybody fellows. Courtney's work has been developed at Athena Project, Imaginarium Theatre Company, and The Apartment Players. She received a 2019 Edward Guiliano Global Travel Fellowship to research and develop her play Jenkins: An All-American Outing at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.