A North American performer, writer & educator, Heather Taylor is a regular on the London performance scene where she displays her natural ability to reach out to an audience. She has performed throughout the UK from the Glastonbury festival to the Off-centre Tour with Renaissance One as well as festivals in Canada and the Netherlands.

She studied music, acting and writing in western Canada. After working on over 30 film and theatre productions both onstage and off, Heather began performing her own solo work in Vancouver and co-produced the multimedia showcase Skidrow Theatre with Silent Productions. In January 2002, Heather pulled up stakes and moved to London, England. Since arriving in the UK, she has been a featured performer at events/ venues including Borders, Poetry Café, Book Slam, RADA, Camberwell Arts Festival, Harrow Festival, Runnymede International Literature Festival, and Glastonbury. She has also performed at the Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol) and Guardian Newsroom as part of the Remember Saro-Wiwa project which will continue to tour through 2007. She is one of the founders of Practicum Theatre (www.practicumtheatre.com).

Recently Heather was touring the 2-woman poetry and music show, Accents on Words. It was launched at the poetry café in London in November 2005 and has since been performed at a number of venues, including The British Library with BBC Radio London, BAC with Apples and Snakes, The Aran Islands (Ireland) and India with the British Council for Mumbai Poetry Live.

Mannix and Taylor’s repertoire is aurally gorgeous; their voices perfectly matched as they inter-splice their respective poetry. Visually it’s arresting too; sometimes it’s formal and dramatic, with fragments of verse spoken in syncopation and graceful, choreographed movement. Other times it’s like having your two big sisters having a comfortable conversation. They bounce words and ideas off each other incessantly, a fabulous repartee of wisecracks that leavens the underlying pathos of memory and loss that many of the poems tonight have dealt with. -Sean Merrigan, Edit Red