Robert Thaddeus Taylor (1925–2006) was an American

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, director and founder of the Shakespeare Society of America.

Taylor

Robert Thaddeus Taylor was born August 29, 1925, in Wendell, Idaho. Known as Thad Taylor, he was a founder of the Shakespeare Society of America in 1968, which built a mini replica of Shakespeare's

Globe Theatre The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend, and gra ...

in West Hollywood, California. It was dedicated to the production of classical plays. Taylor's Globe staged all of the plays in Shakespeare's first folio at the playhouse as well as productions of Shakespeare Apocrypha like '' The Birth of Merlin,'' '' The Puritan'' and '' Sir John Oldcastle'', the latter production directed by Taylor himself in 1986, and non-Shakespearean classics like '' The Alchemist''. Among the awards Taylor received were the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (shared with DeVeren Bookwalter) for his production of '' Cyrano de Bergerac'' and the

Drama-Logue Award The Drama-Logue Award was an American theater award established in 1977, given by the publishers of Drama-Logue newspaper, a weekly west-coast theater trade publication. Winners were selected by the publication's theater critics, and would recei ...

for his direction of '' Hamlet.'' Production of The Alchemist at the Globe Playhouse

Taylor died on October 5, 2006, in Los Angeles, California.

Shakespeare Society of America

The artifacts, archives and memorabilia from Hollywood's Globe Theatre and the Shakespeare Society of America were moved to Moss Landing, California in 2007. This collection includes the work, notes books, and photographs of Taylor. This collection is on public display at 7981 Moss Landing Road in Moss Landing. the president of the society was Terry Taylor, nephew of the founder.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, R. Thad 1925 births 2006 deaths American theatre directors American theatre managers and producers People from Wendell, Idaho