Producer
A Canadian writer & educator, Heather Taylor has been published throughout Europe and North America and has been a host on Resonance FM & Sound Radio with guest slots on CKUA, CKUF, BBC London Radio and Radio Canada International.
As a producer, Heather founded Practicum Theatre and has produced short plays at Theatre 503, the Camden Fringe festival as well as facilitating a transfer to New place Theater in St. Albans. With Practicum she has also produced readings in London and Edinburgh, a one page play festival at the Globe Theatre Space in Balham, a carnival-esque fundraising party and an musical theatre presentation as part of the BAC Scratch Night.
Heather was also co-producer for Foresite on DOING LINES, the sold out festival of short plays that went up at the Pleasance Theatre. She has also curated/ produced events for Glastonbury Festival (in the poetry and words area), EMMA festival (2 nights @ the tabernacle in Notting Hill), Sable Magazine launch, comedy/ poetry nights at the charterhouse bar in Farringdon, and theatre productions in Vancouver through Silent Productions.
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Rehearsed Reading : Prisms by Heather Taylor
Monday 13 August, 2007 : 12:30 pm Forest Fringe as part of the Edinburgh Festival Bristo Hall, above the Forest Cafe 3 Bristo Place Midlothian EH1 1EY FREE At 19, Joseph’s mother was tragically killed in a motor vehicle accident. 20 years on, Prisms shows 3 ways his life could have gone depending on how he handled his grief – in a world of acceptance, anger or ultimate denial. Featuring Samuel Collings & Jennifer Taylor as Joseph and Marilyn. |
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Hostage / Bleach / Burn
Monday 30 July, 2007 – Saturday 4 August, 2007 : 6pm Camden Fringe Festival Ecetera Theatre 265 Camden High Street London, NW1 7BU Hostage: In a dark room in a distant, undisclosed country, a man held hostage by militants searches for absolution in each link in the chain of events that lead to his captivity. Bleach: In another room, in a comfortable, westernised country, a young woman who fancies herself a free spirit discovers the real nature of the walls that surround her. Burn: Deep in the heart of Montreal, a man has to come to face with the fact his whole life was based on a lie. These 3 one person shows by Heather Taylor spin tales of three people in different times and places trapped in their lives, trying to find out how they got there and where they can go. |
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Selection of In The Ring : The Musical
Selection of In The Ring : The MusicalSunday 15 July, 2007 Freshly Scratched Night BAC, London |
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Carnival-esque Party!
Friday 15 June, 2007 : 6:30pm 12-13 New Wharf Road Fortune Tellers! Fire Acts! Candy girls! Magicians! Put your gladrags on and come drink and be merry at our fundraiser carnival-esque party. Make sure you don’t miss the party of the year! |
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One Page Play Competition Night
Sunday 10 June, 2007: 7:30 pm The Shakespearean Globe Theatre @ The Bedford 77 Bedford Hill London, SW12 9HD Come and see performances of the one page plays shortlisted in our first annual competition. As an audience, you get to vote for the best writing, best direction and best overall play. Winners get a staged reading later on in the year. Come witness new theatre in the making! |
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Rehearsed Reading : Slash/Fiction by Nick Field
Monday 28 May, 2007 : 7 pm 389 Coldharbour Lane London, SW9 8LQ Slash/Fiction is a darkly funny play in which three interweaved stories explore fantasies and brutal realities of different relationships between men. Two soldiers vie for glory during a bloody siege, a new gay couple fail tragically to maintain the thrill of falling in love and a woman desperately writes homoerotic romances in her office. Subversive in form and uncompromising in content, this play evokes the danger when the actual and the fantasised blur. Directed by AC Wilson. Actors include: Lorraine Coady, Rob Lockhart, Adam McConville, Jamie Griffiths, and Matthew Bulgo |
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Hostage / Bleach
28 & 29 September, 2006 : 8pm New Place St. AlbansTransfered from Theatre 503, Hostage and Bleach, two one-person shows written by Heather Taylor, are being remounted in St. Albans. Hostage: In a dark room in a distant, undisclosed country, a man held hostage by militants searches for absolution in each link in the chain of events that lead to his captivity. Bleach: In another room, in a comfortable, westernised country, a young woman who fancies herself a free spirit discovers the real nature of the walls that surround her. |
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Reel to Real
11-16 September, 2006 – 8pm Theatre 503 Latchmere Pub 503 Battersea Park Road London SW11 3BW8 Cutting-Edge Playwrights + 8 Iconic Film Quotes = 8 Bold New Plays exploring the reluctant love affair between stage and screen. Practicum Theatre invites you to join them for an evening of diverse short plays inspired by provocative lines from celebrated films. Given the constraint of writing a play under ten minutes where both the first line and the last line are film quotes, eight exciting writers have created a cycle of rapid-fire plays where the last line of one play is the first line of the next. Part pop culture deconstruction, part relay race through cinematic history and genre – We guarantee this is cine-theatre as you’ve never seen it. And Now For Our Feature Presentation – REEL TO REAL, A Cine-theatrical Extravaganza. Don’t forget your popcorn! |
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Hostage / Bleach
8 & 10 June, 2006 : 8pm Theatre 503 Latchmere Pub 503 Battersea Park Road London SW11 3BWTwo one-person shows written by Heather Taylor. A portion of the ticket sales will go to National Aids Trust. The National AIDS Trust (NAT) is the UK’s leading independent policy and campaigning charity on HIV and AIDS. NAT develops policies and campaigns to halt the spread of HIV, improve the quality of life of people affected by HIV, and eradicate HIV-related stigma and discrimination, both in the UK and internationally. |
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BREAKING NEWS: Rachel Corrie
3-5 May, 2006 : 8pm Theatre 503 Latchmere Pub 503 Battersea Park Road London SW11 3BWMarch, 2003: Rachel Corrie was crushed by an Israel bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian home. March, 2006: The production of “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” a play based on her writings, was halted at the New York Theatre Workshop. Take part in an evening of new short plays inspired by the play and the banning of it. “This is censorship born out of fear – all of us are the losers.” |
Other productions produced include:
| Doing Lines Festival (8 short plays) | Producer | Forsite Writers, Pleasance Theatre, 2005 |
| Transatlantic Experiment (poetry) | Producer | Glastonbury Fest (poetry&words), 2004 |
| Landings (poetry night) | Curator/ emcee | EMMA festival/ Tabernacle, 2004 |
| Sable Magazine Launch | Curator | Sable Magazine (London), 2004 |
| AlterEgo (poetry night) | Curator/ Producer | Charterhouse Bar, 2004 |
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