Allan Taylor is a live artist, writer and theatre-maker whose work ranges from theatrical performance to durational installations and intimate performances. His work investigates the absurd in relation to the self and how external expectations affect our internal self-perception, often using character and façade to display the dichotomy between our ideals and reality. Placing the audience at the centre of the experience, Allan experiments with awkwardness, repetition, expectation and the ludicrous to produce work that is simultaneously tragic and comic, ugly and beautiful, and logical and irrational. His unique mix of dark humour and a refreshingly honest stage presence has struck a chord with audiences across the UK and beyond.
Recent credits include predicting the future for audiences at the BAC using horoscopes and tarot cards, encouraging cabaret lovers at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern to become artists in their own right by selling their art for just 1p, in addition to explaining his love life through numbers at Liverpool’s innovative arts venue The Bluecoat. He was selected as one of four artists from the UK to present work at the inaugural Stockholm Fringe Festival, where his show The King of Beauty was critically acclaimed. Allan is also a widely published feature writer and has had his performance lecture Love Is A Number printed in Gay Times. His first two full length plays received commendations in the Soho Theatre’s biannual Verity Bargate Award and he has also published and presented research into the documentation of performance art through photography.
"An Englishman with a stark and sexual character" - Stockholm City Newspaper, selected as #1 pick of the Stockholm Fringe Festival 2010
"A love guru with the mathematical formula for romance" – Loyd Williams, Entertainment News, BBC West Midlands Radio
