Taylor Gruenloh

Taylor Gruenloh is an MFA Playwright at Hollins University in Virginia, the Artistic Director at Tesseract Theatre Company, and graduate of Webster University in St. Louis. Plays include My Alexandria, A Path Far From Here, and Remembering Gravity. Produced the St. Louis premieres of To the New Girl... by Samantha Macher, A Thing With Feathers by Kevin Ferguson, and An Almost Perfect Murder by Wendy Marie Martin among others. Acting credits in St. Louis include Angels in America, Proof, The Pillowman, Some Girl(s), Cripple of Inishmaan, and The Shape of Things, among others.

A Dialectic in Ferguson

Essay

A Dialectic in Ferguson

7 September 2014

I’ll always be fighting for my voice to be heard. That’s why we need more eyewitness accounts. People saying I was there. I saw everything. I know the truth. And that’ll be me. Telling the truth.

Creating a New Play Microcosm

Essay

Creating a New Play Microcosm

14 February 2014

Starting a theater company is much like getting ready to write a book report in the sixth grade. Before you get to the nitty-gritty, you first have to figure out the “Five Ws and One H.” Who? What? Where? Why? When? And, How?

Investing in Friends

Essay

Investing in Friends

15 August 2013

Taylor Gruenloh writes about the importance of producing your friends' work, and how it just might be the future of new play development in the United States.