SAMUEL TAYLOR

SAMUEL TAYLOR

Artistic Associate

Since 2016

Samuel Taylor (he/him)

Chicago credits include work at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Actors Gymnasium, Redmoon, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. He is co-founder of the Back Room Shakespeare Project, a decade-long project to do Shakespeare more like how Shakespeare did Shakespeare: with serious actors, no director, only one rehearsal, and in a bar. He is author of the books “My Life with the Shakespeare Cult” and “Blueprints for a Shakespeare Cult.” He teaches Shakespeare at the University of Chicago. He is also the founder of Long Table Pancakes: heirloom grain pancake mixes that fight climate change. 

Regional credits include work at American Players Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, and the Guthrie Theater. On-Camera credits include recurring roles on Boardwalk Empire and Crisis.

samuelmtaylor.com | backroomshakespeare.com | longtablepancakes.com

Bio as of 2022

ARTIST MEDIA

LOOKINGGLASS PRODUCTIONS

MR. AND MRS. PENNYWORTH, 2016
THADDEUS AND SLOCUM: A VAUDEVILLE ADVENTURE, 2016
LOOKINGGLASS ALICE, 2014
LOOKINGGLASS ALICE, 2010

EDUCATION

BFA, University of Minnesota
Guthrie Theater Professional Actor Training Program

CREDITS AND AWARDS

  • THEATRE CREDITS

    CHICAGO

    • Marnie & Phil (The Actors Gymnasium)
    • Comedy of Errors, School for Lies, Julius Caesar, Henry VIII, The Feast, Timon of Athens (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
    • Hot L Baltimore (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
    • Hunchback (Redmoon Theater at New Victory Theater, 2008)
    • Hunchback (Redmoon Theater, 2007)
    • Hugging the Shoulder (Chicago Fusion Theatre)

    REGIONAL

    • Lookingglass Alice (Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and Denver Center for Performing Arts, 2015; Alliance Theatre, 2010; Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2009)
    • Doctor’s Dilemma, Romeo and Juliet (American Players Theatre)
    • Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville)
    • Sirens (Fox Valley Repertory Theater)
    • The Boys Next Door  (Syracuse Stage)
    • The Spy (The Acting Co.)
    • Henry V, Flags, Proclivities (Guthrie Theater)
    • Cymbeline, Macbeth (Tricklock Company)
    • Macbeth (Greasy Joan & Co.)
    • Romeo and Juliet (ABQ Little Theatre)
    • Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It (Guthrie Theater | SOTC)
    • Secret Lives of Losers (The Playwrights’ Center)

  • TELEVISION CREDITS

    • Chicago Fire (NBC)
    • Crisis (NBC)
    • Mob Doctor (Fox)
    • Boardwalk Empire (HBO)

  • AWARDS

    • Actors Equity Association Suzi Bass Award for Best Ensemble for Lookingglass Alice (2010)
    • Syracuse Area League of Theatres (SALT) Award for Best Play for Lookingglass Alice (2011)