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Dorian Taylor

artist. performance maker. public speaker. writer. workshop leader

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Dorian Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois, who uses devised/physical theatre, masks, puppetry, spoken word, visual media, music and spatial soundscapes to create original performance work.

Dorian’s artistic influences include Jacques Lecoq, Thomas Prattki (devised theatre, embodied dramaturgy), Mummenschanz, Complicité/THE ENCOUNTER (spatial audio), Jim Henson (edutainment, puppetry), Carolena Nericcio (improvisational choreography), and Davina Porter (voice acting).


Education Details

Education Details

MFA, European Devised Performance Practice [details]
Columbia College, Chicago

BA, Communication and Information Studies - Media Arts [details]
California State University, Chico

AA, Technical Theater [details]
Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California

Additional arts classes, workshops and apprenticeships [details]

Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) [details]

Contact/CV

Copyright © 2025 Dorian Taylor

Current Projects

  • A physical theatre/puppet play in which bees deal with human-created challenges. (more info)
  • A physical theatre piece that explores performative physical transformation.
  • A physical theatre piece that speaks to the emotional weight a woman carries in a world that’s struggling with the echoes of antiquated and brutal notions and laws surrounding the concept of Coverture.
MFA, European Devised Performance Practice

Lecoq-tradition devised and physical theatre and performance studies at Columbia College Chicago in partnership with Arthaus Berlin International School (formerly LISPA):

  • movement, movement analysis
  • embodied dramaturgy, music, art and writing
  • improvisation, voice/singing, rhythm, acrobatics
  • neutral, larval and expressive mask performance, mask-making
  • storytelling, character creation, clown, platform
  • collaborative/ensemble and solo devising
  • theatre festival production
BA, Communication and Information Studies – Media Arts

California State University, Chico

  • field and studio video production, editing/post
  • broadcast television news production
  • broadcast radio production
  • audio production – voiceover, narration, editing
  • screenwriting, audio scriptwriting
  • film photography
  • additional studies in business and management information systems
AA, Technical Theater

Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California

  • acting I, II & III
  • musical theatre
  • voice & diction
  • directing
  • text-based ensemble devised theatre
  • wig and stage makeup design
  • stage lighting
  • front-of-house management
  • theatre marketing and promotion
  • additional studies in ethnomusicology, modern dance, drawing, jewelry-making and business
Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM)
  • advanced public speaker
  • club officer trainer
  • special topics trainer/workshop leader at District 57 Conference
  • club officer (President, Secretary, VP-Education, VP-Public Relations)
  • District 57 conference chair, conference program chair
  • District 57 Webmaster
  • Division F Governor
  • Area F20 Governor

Additional arts classes, workshops and apprenticeships:

  • FatChanceBellyDance®Style (formerly American Tribal Style®) bellydance with Carolena Nericcio and others of FatChanceBellyDance
  • Wig Design and Tech Apprentice – Summer Repertory Theatre, Santa Rosa, California
  • The Art of Improvisation (Sketch Improv) drop-ins with Jill Eickmann and staff of Leela, San Francisco, California
  • Puppetry Basics with Finn Caldwell of Gyre & Gimble/Royal National Theatre
  • Voice Acting workshops and private sessions with Elaine Clark and David Rosenthal of Voice One, Adriana Davis of D-Squared Media NYC, Susan Berkley of The Great Voice Company
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