R. Thad Taylor

Robert Thaddeus Taylor (1925–2006) was an American producer, director and founder of the Shakespeare Society of America.

A scene from Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist at R. Thad Taylor's Globe Playhouse

Taylor

Robert Thaddeus Taylor was born August 29, 1925, in Wendell, Idaho. Known as Thad Taylor, he was a founder of the Shakespeare Society of America in 1968, which built a mini replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in West Hollywood, California. It was dedicated to the production of classical plays.[1] Taylor's Globe staged all of the plays in Shakespeare's first folio at the playhouse as well as productions of Shakespeare Apocrypha like The Birth of Merlin, The Puritan and Sir John Oldcastle, the latter production directed by Taylor himself in 1986, and non-Shakespearean classics like The Alchemist. Among the awards Taylor received were the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (shared with DeVeren Bookwalter) for his production of Cyrano de Bergerac and the Drama-Logue Award for his direction of Hamlet.

Allan Trautman in a production of The Alchemist at the Globe Playhouse circa 1987–1988
Allan Trautman in a production of The Alchemist at the Globe Playhouse circa 1987–1988

Taylor died on October 5, 2006, in Los Angeles, California.[2]

Shakespeare Society of America

The artifacts, archives and memorabilia from Hollywood's Globe Theatre and the Shakespeare Society of America were moved to Moss Landing, California in 2007. This collection includes the work, notes books, and photographs of Taylor.

References
  1. "Tribute to Thad Taylor". The Shakespeare Society of America. 2007. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
  2. "SSA History". The Shakespeare Society of America. 2007. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
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