Phoebe Anne Taylor
Phoebe Anne Taylor as “Sebastian” in Shakespeare Republic, Season Two, “Launce” in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) and “Jane Porter” in Dark Arcadia
Phoebe Anne Taylor is a Melbourne based theatre maker, actor and writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and Honours in Performance from Monash University, and was a graduate of the inaugural Full Time ensemble of the Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia.
In 2019, Phoebe became an alumni of the Arteles Creative Centre in Finland, having completed the Silence Awareness Existence residency. She was awarded runner up for her work in the 2020 Alpine Fellowship International Theatre Writing prize, and has had work produced at La Mama and the Butterfly Club.
Theatre acting credits include “Ricki” in Apples and Shoes’ the art of f*cking and no blinding light, both of which she also wrote, performed at La Mama & Adelaide Fringe, a vocalist in Old Man Nanook for 3Mask, “Maya (Marcus Andronicus)” in Four Letter Word Theatre’s Titus Andronicus and “Naomi” in Speak English or Die.
Film credits include “Raylene” in Michael Liparota’s Raylene and Charlie, “Jasmine” in Liam Firmager’s Revelation and Jaklene Vukasinovic’s Firelight.
Her direction credits include Buried at Sea for Second Breakfast, Kiss me Kate, The Producers and Away for Trinity College and Hamlet and The Tempest for Hartwell Players. She is also a regular narrator for the Vision Australia Information Library Service and has narrated several audio books for various publishers.
Phoebe has also collaborated in music and multimedia work as a vocalist and writer.
WHO HAS PHOEBE PLAYED IN SHAKESPEARE REPUBLIC?
Shakespeare Republic audiences will remember Phoebe from her beautiful work as “Sebastian” in Shakespeare Republic Season Two, a performance that was awarded alongside our 13 strong ensemble for that season with the Ensemble Amets Award at the 2017 Bilbao Seriesland in Spain and Best Ensemble Cast (Series) at the 2019 London International Motion Pictures Awards in the UK.
Phoebe returned to the series as Launce in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles), for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the 2021 Montréal Digital WebFest in Canada, as well as being awarded alongside the rest of our amazing cast for that season with Best Ensemble (International Narrative) at the 2021 New Zealand WebFest, Best Ensemble Cast (Drama) at the 2021 British Web Awards, Best Ensemble Performance at the 2022 London Web Fest in the UK and nominated for Best Ensemble Performance (Drama) at the 2022 International Academy of Web Television Awards in the USA.
Most recently, Phoebe played the role of “Jane Porter” (the Porter from Macbeth) in our award-winning Shakespeare limited series – Dark Arcadia, part of the Shakespeare Republic universe – a performance that won her Best Performance in a SciFi/ Horror/ Fantasy Series at the 2024 Baltimore Next Media Web Fest in the USA.
Find out more about Phoebe here: https://www.instagram.com/thingsfromiso/