Leah Taylor (she/her) is a theatre-maker, artist, and human person based in Chicago. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Leah has spent over fifteen years making theatre as an actor, stage manager, assistant director, dramaturg, stagehand, prop designer, coffee-brewer, and anything else you need her to do. If she hasn’t done it, she would love a reason to learn it.

In addition to theatre, Leah has worked and volunteered for community-based arts organizations as a mosaic muralist, writer, illustrator, ceramic artist and educator, working with adults and children of all ages and abilities, as well as serving in various administrative roles.

Leah holds an M.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was the 2017 recipient of the Performing Arts Department Excellence in Graduate Writing Award. Primary areas of research centered art practice and social change, including: Theatre of the Oppressed and Theatre for Living, performance and critical pedagogy, and twentieth-century performance and activism.

Special interests include ensemble-based creation, puppetry, and mask.