Annette Daniels Taylor

Annette Daniels Taylor expanded her role from teaching artist for Young Audiences of Western New York to join our staff in the Fall of 2011. As Education Associate she assists with program evaluation and assessment, planning, and professional development.  Beyond her role with Young Audiences, Annette is a playwright, poet, actor, teacher, singer and costumer. In 2009, Daniels-Taylor won the Artie’s Emanuel Fried Award for New Play, A Little Bit of Paradise, which premiered at Road Less Traveled Productions in 2008. While living in New York, she wrote and acted, and received a scholarship from the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Daniels-Taylor is a co-founder of Down in My Soul Productions, a member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild, and writer-in-residence at The Langston Hughes Institute. She has also been a teaching artist for the Arts in Education Institute of Western New York, Irish Classical Theatre Company, and the African American Cultural Center.