About me
Taylor St. John (he/him) is a leader, theatre maker, and educator currently serving as the Director of Education and Engagement at the Orpheum Theatre Group in Memphis, TN. At the Orpheum he directs the Neighborhood Play Program (a community-playmaking program) and the Teaching Artist Training Program (where he collaborates and coaches Mid-South artists to educate and engage with youth and communities). As a teaching artist, he has developed and led programs for the nationally recognized Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, the award-winning Barrington Stage Company, Florida Studio Theatre, the Bloomington Playwright's Project, and most recently with the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. As a theatre director, he works at the intersection of theatre, community, and education. Recent directing credits include: We All We Got: A Binghampton Play, My Hood/My Home/My Sacred Haven, A Ferry Tale, Stories of Home, Figuring Life Out, The Gospel According to Bickford with the Orpheum Theatre Group, Pericles (Tennessee Shakespeare Co.), Shaming Jane Doe, She Kills Monsters (University of Memphis), and Elephant's Graveyard (Voices of the South). He holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Memphis and degrees in Theatre and Education from Indiana University.
