Writer
Tommy Taylor (He/Him) is a Hamilton-based multifaceted artist whose creative journey spans over two decades. His work bridges the realms of theatre, activism, and community engagement as a storyteller, activist and artist. Recently, at the 2022 Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA), the 2022 PXR Festival and the 2023 XR Live! Festival, he premiered the virtual reality adaptation of his one-man stage-hit about his arrest and detention at the infamous 2010 Toronto G20 Summit, You Should Have Stayed Home (which originally toured across Canada in 2013). The stage show version was also presented at the 2023 Hamilton Fringe Frost Bites Festival. For the past several years he has been serving on the frontlines of our housing and homelessness crisis – in shelters, drop-ins and street & encampment outreach and was the previous Manager of Community Health Programs at Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre. In other select credits: Tommy’s original 2015 Toronto Fringe romp Uncle Tommy’s Campfire Ghost Stories also featured at Hamilton’s 2022 Supercrawl Festival and will be seen as part of the upcoming 2024 Hamilton Fringe Festival’s ‘Fringe in the Streets’ experience. He also directed the award-winning eco-cautionary tale Kayak at the 2011 Toronto Summerworks Festival, and spent almost a decade prior directing and performing with the Shakespearean company Forward Theatre at Mississauga’s Living Arts Centre. He appeared most recently at Hamilton’s Staircase Theatre in 9M Theatre’s production of Hamlet in March 2024.