Leslie Taylor

Theater Studies

Chair & Associate Professor

Theater Emory

Resident Designer

Rich Building, Room 224

404-727-2574

Leslie Taylor has designed sets and costumes for over 100 productions. Most recently, she designed sets and costumes A Streetcar Named Desire for Georgia Shakespeare Festival and King Lear for Theater Emory.

Currently Chair of the Theater Studies Program at Emory University, she also served as the Artistic Director for Theater Emory's 2000-2001 season. She is resident designer for Theater Emory, and has designed for GA Shakespeare Festival, the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Alliance Theater, Georgia Ensemble Theater and Theatrical Outfit. Her work has been seen at Opera Theater St. Louis, GEVA Theater in Rochester, NY, Merrimack Theater, Portland Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theater and Off-Broadway.

On Broadway she was the Associate Designer with Ming Cho Lee on the Tony award-winning production of K-2 and The Glass Menagerie starring Jessica Tandy. She was the Associate Designer for The Odd Couple starring Rita Moreno and Sally Struthers. In 1983, she received a Maharam Award for her work on K-2 and has had her work chosen as Best of Atlanta by the Journal Constitution and Creative Loafing. She received her BA with Honors from Wellesley College, her MFA from New York University School of the Arts, and a post-graduate study from The League of Professional Theater Training Programs.