Leslie Taylor

Taylor has designed sets and costumes for more than 160 productions. Her most recent Alliance set design was for August: Osage County, for which she received a Suzi Bass Award. Her most recent designs for Theater Emory include the dance/theater pieces Free/Fall and Grim, Grimmer, Grimmest. Leslie served for 10 years as chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Emory University. Currently she serves as executive director for the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts. She has designed locally for Georgia Shakespeare, the Center for Puppetry Arts, Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Theatrical Outfit and Actor’s Express, and nationally at Opera Theater St. Louis, Geva Theatre, Merrimack Rep, Portland Stage Company, Indiana Rep and off-Broadway. On Broadway she was the associate designer with Ming Cho Lee on the Tony award-winning production of K-2. In 1983, she received a Maharam Award for her work on K-2.