Taylor Marie Graham
Taylor Marie Graham is an award-winning theatre creator, scholar, and educator who lives in Cambridge, Ontario / Haldimand Tract. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in theatre studies at the University of Guelph. Currently, she teaches as a sessional professor at universities in Ontario. You can find Taylor’s articles in Canadian Theatre Review, Intermission Magazine, Routledge’s Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Theatre Research in Canada, The Conversation, and Canadian Literature. Critics describe her plays and operas as, “arresting and funny” (Slotkin Letter), “uncommonly cool” (Mooney on Theatre), “charmingly twisted” (Toronto Star), “powerful and courageous,” (OnStage), “meaningful to audiences of all ages” (Intermission), “darkly evocative” (Istvan Reviews), “psychological, theological, and ornithological” (Our Theatre Voice), “searingly written” (Bill Mandel), and “profound, beautifully crafted” (StageDoor). Her book Cottage Radio & Other Plays (Talonbooks) animates a wild cast of Southwestern Ontario characters –particularly its strong, hilarious rural women– with complex histories and relationships to the land
