Taylor Barfield

Taylor Barfield is a dramaturg, writer, and theater artist from Baltimore, MD. He served as the Acting Literary Manager at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT and the Literary Manager at Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Before that he served as the Associate Artistic Director at Collaboraction Theatre Company in Chicago, IL. Taylor currently works as a freelance dramaturg and consultant working with organizations such as the Guthrie, BMG, Portland Center Stage, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, LAByrinth Theater Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre. He received his B.A. in Molecular/Cellular Biology and English Literature from Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he earned his M.F.A. and D.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. His scholarly work explores how contemporary Black American playwrights re-imagine and re-stage Black theater history. His writing has been published in Vulture, TDF Stages, 3Views, and the Marginalia Review of Books. Taylor is currently a visiting assistant arts professor in dramatic writing at NYU Tisch. taylorjamalbarfield.com