Taylor Steele is a queer, Black, NYC-born-and-based writer and theatermaker. In July of 2026, her play “What.A.Boor” was featured at Dixon Place as part of their HOT Festival. In 2025, she was a member of Fresh Ground Pepper’s PlayGround PlayGroup fellowship. In 2024, she was a member of the Short Play Lab at New Perspectives. Her one-hour Afrofuturist play “Damages” was part of Ars Nova’s 2023 ANT Fest. In 2021, Taylor was named an Honorable Mention for the National Queer Theater’s New Visions Fellowship. In 2019, she directed a workshop performance of her play “Girls Act Out” while in residency at The Center at West Park. A triple-Taurus, Taylor stubbornly believes in the power of art.
