Courtney Taylor is a playwright and speechwriter from Massapequa, NY. Her work has been recognized by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference (2024 semifinalist, Jenkins: An All-American Outing; 2023 semifinalist, No Entrance), the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (2024 & 2023 finalist, No Entrance), the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator (2024 semifinalist, No Entrance), SheNYC Summer Theater Festival (2024 semifinalist, No Entrance), ScreenCraft's Stage Play Competition (2023 quarterfinalist, The Warren Commission Spectacular), and the J.L. Smith New Play Festival (2022 semifinalist, The Warren Commission Spectacular).
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...
Courtney Taylor is a playwright and speechwriter from Massapequa, NY. Her work has been recognized by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference (2024 semifinalist, Jenkins: An All-American Outing; 2023 semifinalist, No Entrance), the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (2024 & 2023 finalist, No Entrance), the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator (2024 semifinalist, No Entrance), SheNYC Summer Theater Festival (2024 semifinalist, No Entrance), ScreenCraft's Stage Play Competition (2023 quarterfinalist, The Warren Commission Spectacular), and the J.L. Smith New Play Festival (2022 semifinalist, The Warren Commission Spectacular).
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.
Courtney's one-act play Lights in the Sky has been produced across the U.S., opened Off-Off-Broadway in 2019. Her play No Entrance received a reading in March 2024 as part of the Neurodivergent New Play Series. Courtney's play "revelations..." received readings at The Makers' Ensemble and LimeFest at The Tank; posts about the play went viral, receiving 153.2k views on Twitter/X.