Taylor Steele is an NYC born-and-based poet, playwright, comedy writer, and photographer.
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Her love for words has led to two published chapbooks of poetry as well as individual pieces being published in Apogee Journal, HEArt Journal, BOAAT Press, and more. Her most recent play, What. A. Boor., was performed at Dixon Place as part of its HOT Festival in 2026. Her new, full-length play ROUND was written under the guidance of Fresh Ground Pepper’s 2025 PlayGround PlayGroup Fellowship. Her one-hour play, Damages, was featured during ANT Fest at Ars Nova in June 2023.
Her short film eXcape was featured at OutFest Fusion in 2023. Her comedy pilot 35 Bleak St. was a finalist in the 2022 Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest. She is an internationally-ranked spoken word artist who has been featured on Huffington Post, Brooklyn Poets, Button Poetry.
In 2021, Taylor was script consultant on the multimedia theater project Is this love, or is it fantasy? created by musical artists Delune (Kate Eberstadt and Izzi Eberstadt). In 2019, she was awarded a residency at The Center at West Park, where she wrote and directed a new play. She graduated with honors from The New School in 2013.
