Taylor Ayling is a working-class Bristolian theatre director specializing in adaptation and devised work. He is artistic director of Public Weird and a member of the artist collective Interval. Originally an actor with a speciality in devising, Taylor has recently graduated from M.A. Contemporary Directing Practice at Rose Bruford College. His recent credits are the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a folk music adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of The Kings of Britain, Alistair McDowall's X and an adaptation of Ovid's myth Pygmalion. Fascinated with theatre from around the globe, Taylor's work draws from an eclectic range of influences from performance art, contemporary dance as well as pantomime and always has a playful and anarchic spirit at heart.
Drawing from his 1st hand experience of theatre from around the globe and interactions with world-leading theatre practitioners Eugenio Barba, Annabel Arden, Jan Fabre and Ivo van Hove, Taylor is also fascinated in developing new approaches to actor training that disrupt the traditional western models of performer development. His ethos is heavily influenced by his participation in ISTA (The international school of theatre anthropology) a workshop where masters of performing arts from every continent come together to "research the technical basis of the performer in a transcultural dimension." (https://ista-online.org/about/ , 2023)
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