TAYLOR BOGAERT

Taylor is an actor, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist, currently creating art for and within

the Niagara Region. He is a graduate of Fanshawe College’s Theatre Arts

Conservatory, as well as Brock University’s Dramatic Arts program. Since graduating

from Brock, Taylor has been performing with Carousel Players, a company devoted to

Theatre for Young Audiences in many different capacities. His favourite credits with

them include both Mask Minis, a larval mask show and workshop that toured digitally to

classrooms, and Tiny Treasures, a (nearly) one-person show that poignantly told the

stories of young caregivers. While classically trained as an actor, over the last several

years Taylor has also diversified his art practice into additional mediums. In the

beginning of the pandemic, Taylor, along with Josh Loewen, created an interactive

story-sharing website called The Forest of Us, with the help of a grant from the National

Theatre School. Through a recent artistic residency with Suitcase in Point, he further

explored his love for audio storytelling, developing his skills in sound design and editing,

as well as self-producing. This residency led to the creation of his ongoing audio thriller,

The Moonlight Frequency. Earlier this year, Taylor took on an Internship in Artistic

Direction at Carousel Players, under the leadership of Monica Dufault. As a part of this

internship, he assistant directed the play Lig and Bittle, served on audition panels and

casting for the upcoming season, and led a team in the creation of The Pirate Mystery,

an interactive outdoor installation for the Niagara Children’s Festival. He is currently

nominated for an Emerging Artist Award at the St. Catharines Arts Awards. Taylor is

grateful for all of these opportunities, and that he still gets to make art with his friends.