Harriet Taylor

American stage director Harriet Taylor joined the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2022/23 Season. She completed her BFA in Musical Theatre at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2015 and worked in various capacities on/off-Broadway before moving to London where she completed an MA in Text & Performance at RADA/Birkbeck and an MFA in Creative Producing at Central School of Speech and Drama.  

Taylor has directed at Battersea Arts Centre, The Pleasance, Theatre 503, and the Rose Theatre in Kingston where her work won the Audience Choice Award at the International Youth Arts Festival. As an assistant director, she has worked at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Coronet Theatre, The Old Red Lion, and The Royal College of Music. Taylor was assistant director on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme 2021 live stream of Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel.  

Her short film debut, The Vagina Musical, was an official selection at several BAFTA qualifying festivals and won Best International Film at the Ridgewood International Film Festival.

Taylor is the Co-Artistic Director of Nothing to Perform (N2P), a London-based production company with whom she has directed multiple fringe productions, graduate showcases for The London Film School, staged readings, monthly networking events and, most recently, a new play commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre for production in Virtual Reality. 

Taylor made her directorial debut for The Royal Opera in the JPAP Summer Performance in July 2023. In the 2023/24 Season she directs The Full Moon in March in the Linbury Theatre.