Samuel Taylor

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.

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Bio as of 2022