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  Over more than two decades, Colin Taylor has established a reputation as a groundbreaking and award-winning director and producer in Canada. Also a playwright, teacher, designer, sound and video editor. literary critic, and dramaturge, he is the current Producing Artistic Director of Arts&Science Performance Company, was the Founding Artistic Producer of the highly influential (Theatre) WUM, and former Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Passe Muraille, both based in Toronto. He has also served as a Producer and Director of Radio Drama for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and as Visiting Artist, Director, and Lecturer in Playwriting at various universities   across the country, including Brock,Windsor, Toronto, Queen's, and Bishop's.

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  Working across the country and internationally, Mr. Taylor has more than 70 professional productions to his credit, including Jose Rivera's Marisol, Rick Salutin's 1837, Daniel David Moses' The Indian Medicine Shows, William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (“The Kentucky Titus"), Suzan-Lori Parks' Imperceptible   Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play, Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror, Jean Genet's The Maids, DD Jackson and George Elliot Clarke's Quebecite: A Jazz Opera, Moliere's The Misanthrope, Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, John Murrell's New World, Edward Bond's Saved, Sam Shepard's True West, Wole Soyinka's 1994 and A Play of Giants, and Euripides' Orestes, translated by Anne Carson.

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  In the late 90’s, Mr. Taylor toured internationally, as performer and assistant director, on Robert Wilson's Persephone.

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  Mr. Taylor is the inaugural recipient of the John Hirsch Prize for Directing, a two-time nominee for the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, and the recipient of a Canada Council Individual Artist Creation Grant (Senior Level). His playwriting credits include The Polished Hoe, adapted from the Giller and Commonwealth Prize-winning novel by Austin Clarke; The Radiance of the King, adapted from the novel by Camara Laye; In the Dark; Wilder; The Size of It; Wind-Tunnel Watson and the Rhapsody of Sorrows; and Kneel.

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  He is an honors graduate of the University of Toronto, in Drama and Philosophy, and a former Rotary Foundation International Scholar at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria (awarded to study with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.).

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