Dominic Taylor is a director, playwright and the head of Penumbra’s OKRA New Play Development Program. Most recently, Mr. Taylor directed BLACK NATIVITY: A SEASON FOR CHANGE at Penumbra. Other select directing credits include the new opera FRESH FAUST at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, THE NEGROES BURIAL GROUND at the Kitchen, NYC., UPPA CREEK at Dixon Place, and Ride THE RHYTHM in the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival. He is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota where he has directed THE WIZ, NIGHT TRAIN TO BOLINA and EXECUTION OF JUSTICE. Mr. Taylor has worked with Crossroads Theater, Rites and Reasons Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. He is an alumni member of New Dramatists and holds a Bachelor’s and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Brown University