Courtney Taylor is a playwright, director, and speechwriter from New York. She is a current graduate student and teaching fellow at Lehigh University, as well as a speechwriting consultant for West Wing Writers. She was a finalist for The Bechdel Project's 2022 Room of One's Own Residency, and is one of their inaugural Feminism Is For Everyone fellows. Courtney was a member of Imaginarium Theatre Company's spring 2022 writing group, and directed a reading of her play The Warren Commission Spectacular through the theatre in June 2022. The play was also a semi-finalist for the 2022 J.L. Smith New Play Festival.

Courtney's play Lights in the Sky was published in The Coachella Review's winter 2018 edition, and has been performed by community and school theatre groups across the U.S. She received a 2019 Edward Guiliano Global Travel Fellowship to develop a new play titled Jenkins: An All-American Outing. Courtney also directed, costume designed, and acted in the first production of her farce Ask Not: The True Story of the Kennedy Assassination.