Regina Taylor
Regina Taylor is an actress, director, playwright, educator, and activist. Her acclaimed playwright credits include Crowns (one of the country’s most produced plays/four Helen Hayes Awards, including Best Director); Oo-Bla-Dee (Steinberg-ATCA Award); Drowning Crow (Broadway, Manhattan Theatre Club); The Trinity River Plays (Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award); stop.reset. (Signature Theatre Residency 5); and Bread (Edgerton Award, WaterTower Theatre).
Taylor holds the Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theatre at Fordham University at Lincoln Center and is an artistic associate of Goodman Theatre, where she is its most produced playwright. Her acting credits include HBO’s Lovecraft Country (producers Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams, and Misha Green), Netflix’s All Day and a Night (starring Jeffrey Wright and Ashton Sanders), and guest roles in Council of Dads (NBC), The Red Line (producer Ava DuVernay, CBS), and The Good Fight (CBS).
For her groundbreaking television role as Lily Harper in I’ll Fly Away, Taylor received a Golden Globe Award, three NAACP Image Awards, and two Emmy nominations. She was also the first African American lead in Masterpiece Theatre’s Cora Unashamed, portrayed Anita Hill in HBO’s Strange Justice (Gracie Award), and starred in A Good Day to Die alongside Sidney Poitier. Taylor’s additional TV appearances include The Unit, Elementary, The Blacklist, and Dig.
On film, Taylor’s credits include Saturday Church, The Negotiator, Courage Under Fire, Clockers, and Lean on Me. She also made history as the first Black woman to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway.
