J. Taylor Wright

J. TAYLOR WRIGHT is a theater maker and performer from Texas living and working between Dallas and New York City.

Int'l / Nt'l Tour: A CHORUS LINE (North America 2018, Chinese Premiere at Shanghai Culture Square 2019); Off-Bway: afterglow (The Loft at The Davenport Theatre); Regional: A CHORUS LINE (Flat Rock Playhouse, The Cape Playhouse, The Wick Theatre w/ Mitzi Hamilton), The View UpStairs (Uptown Players), Gypsy (The Hangar Theatre), Godspell, Kiss Me, Kate!, A Little Night Music (New London Barn Playhouse), West Side Story (Flat Rock Playhouse, The Wick Theatre, Festival Theatre) Guys and Dolls (The Wick Theatre, Arizona Broadway Theatre), The Lyons (Shaker Bridge Theatre), and Mary Poppins (Northern Stage, Festival Theatre).

Developmental work credits: Sam Carner & Derek Gregor’s TOAST, Zoe Samuel & Doug Cohen’s HELEN OF TROY, 10 Days in a Madhouse (MandaLeigh Blunt, Mika Kauffman), KRAGTAR, GRINDR the Musical, and charette (ThirdSpace Theatre), Cercle Hermaphroditos (Ntl Queer Theater); Creative credits: A CHORUS LINE (Flat Rock Playhouse, Choreography Assistant), Pippin (The Laurie Beechman, Dream Productions, Asst. Director/Choreographer); Matilda the Musical (Associate Choreographer), The Vagina Monologues, Cages (UpStage Company, Co-Director).

Taylor is a trained gymnast and musician, with concentrations in tumbling and trampoline, percussion (concert/kit), violin, cello, woodwinds, and piano. He has been a guest teaching artist teaching voice, speech, acting, dance, and theater arts at Ellis Co. Children’s Theatre, Waxahachie High School, North Texas Performing Arts, and his alma mater, Coastal Carolina University, where he obtained a BFA in Musical Theatre in 2015. Other training includes workshops with Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Ailey II, Hangar Lab Company and SITI Company.