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Kap Taylor is a midwestern butch playwright, filmmaker, and ex Division I Athlete based in Los Angeles. Their awards include the Kennedy Center ACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, the Gil Cates Fellowship, UCLA's Arts Restoring Community Grant, and the 4x4 Poetry Award selected by Eileen Myles. They’ve been a finalist for the New York Stage and Film Filmmaker’s Lab, Playwright’s Center Core Apprenticeship, Pipeline Theater’s PlayLab, and IAMA’s Emerging Playwrights Lab.

Their films include MASK ON (Official Chelsea Film Festival Selection), and CONTACT SPORTS. Their plays include 11:38 FROM FOND DU LAC (ACTF’s National Playwriting Award). Their Chicago basketball pilot LADIES was a finalist for New York Stage and Film’s Filmmaker Lab, receiving honors from Austin Film Festival, and Coverfly.

Previously, they worked as Showrunner’s Assistant on Zoe Lister Jones’ multiverse sex dramedy, SLIP. They currently work on ABC’s Abbott Elementary, as an EP and director’s assistant. They write and direct monthly as a Public Assembly company member -- where you can find them behind the bar slinging free drinks to sold out shows of over 200 audience members.  BA Columbia University. MFA Playwriting UCLA.


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