Heidi Taylor

Outgoing Artistic & Executive Director

Heidi (she/her) is a dramaturg, director and performance maker, based on the traditional stolen and occupied territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She joined PTC as Associate Dramaturg in 2005, became Dramaturg in 2008, and Artistic and Executive Director in 2012. She is omnivorous in her theatrical tastes, developing performances from first idea through production for sited, text-based, community-engaged and solo works. She has dramaturged the world premieres of Pedro Chamale’s Peace Country, Derek Chan’s Happy Valley, yellow objects, and Chicken Girl, Carmen Aguirre’s Anywhere But Here, Tetsuro Shigetmatsu’s Empire of the Son, 1 Hour Photo, and Kuroko, Ziyian Kwan’s Public and Private, Kendra Fanconi’s Tinkers, and Amber Funk Barton’s How to Say Goodbye, amongst many others. She is currently process dramaturg for Mermaid Spring, created by Barbara Adler and Kyla Gardiner (The Public Swoon). Heidi served as Board Treasurer of LMDA and was the founding president of LMDA Canada. She was a co-founder and co-artistic director of Proximity Lab/Arts from 2003-2016, and taught acting as a sessional at Simon Fraser University from 1999-2013. She is currently the secretary of the board for C-Space, PTC’s shared home.