Bio

Annette Daniels Taylor is a playwright, actor, singer, poet, teaching artist and storyteller.
Annette a native of the forgotten New York City borough of Staten Island started her performance career in her mama’s bedroom; where she would put on lipstick and read romance novels. After quarrelling about going out to the playground for fresh air, she would retreat to her bedroom; where to create elaborate stories that involved her, dolls and movie stars that were in color and black and white. After her grandmother taught her to sew, she embarked on a journey of dressing people who were much more fabulous than she would ever have the energy to become.
While working as a fashion designer, music video and commercial stylist in New York City for such well known celebrities as Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis, Queen Latifah, Lenny Kravitz, Prince Raheem a.k.a the RZA, Missy Elliot, Martin Lawrence, Living Colour, and Russell Simmons she kept writing and acting and received a scholarship to attend the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Annette felt she was spending more time on the careers of other artist instead of developing her own craft. Daniels Taylor along with husband, fine artist Rodney Taylor, children Mingus, Haven, Bleu Ruby and Winter Sky, are able to devote more time to their art since leaving New York City for Buffalo.
Daniels Taylor has performed at La Mama, the Apollo Theater, Nuyorican Poets Café, Harlem School of the Arts, The Marilyn Monroe Theater, St. Michael’s Church, Aaron Davis Hall, Henry Street Settlement, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The Alleyway Theater, Rockwell Hall, HallWalls, Langston Hughes Institute, Lancaster Opera House, The Paul Robeson Theatre, Buffalo’s Juneteenth Festival, The Niagara Falls Freedom Festival, Niagara University and The Albright Knox Art Gallery.
Annette is Director of Theater Education for The Buffalo Ensemble Theatre, writer-in-resident at The Langston Hughes Institute and has been a teaching artist with The Arts In Education Institute, The African American Cultural Center, Irish Classical Theatre Company, Studio Arena and Theater of Youth. She is also co-founder of Down In My Soul Productions a theatrical production company.
She is currently a part of The Road Less Traveled Theatre’s New Play Playwrights Workshop where she is feverishly trying to complete her latest writing project A Little Bit of Paradise as well as recording a new CD of soul inspired love songs with DJ Reazon.