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'''Regina Taylor''' (born August 22, 1960) is an American ] and ]. Taylor has won several awards throughout her career including a ] and ]. '''Regina Taylor''' (born August 22, 1960) is an American actress and playwright. She has won several awards throughout her career, including a ] and ]. In July 2017, Taylor was announced as the new Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theater at ].<ref>Morris, Tanisia, , ''Fordham News'', July 6, 2017.</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Biography==
Taylor was born in ], but starting at age 12 she went to a newly-integrated school in ] where she was subjected to an incident of ] by another student.<ref>Linda Villarosa., ''Essence'', March, 1992</ref> The family later returned to Dallas, where she graduated from ] in 1977.<ref name="guidelive">, ''The Dallas Morning News,'' February 3, 2006</ref> At the age of 12, Taylor moved to ]. The family later returned to Dallas, where she graduated from ] in 1977.<ref name="guidelive"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927010340/http://www.guidelive.com/feature/335/ |date=September 27, 2007 }}, ''The Dallas Morning News,'' February 3, 2006</ref>


===Acting=== ==Acting==
{{BLP sources section|date=September 2022}}
Her earliest professional acting roles were two ] while she was studying at ]: 1980's ''Nurse'' and 1981's '']''. In the latter movie, she was praised by critic John O'Connor of '']'' for her portrayal of ], a member of the ], a group of African-American students who braved violence and armed guards to integrate ] in 1957.<ref name="nyt1981">John O'Connor. ''The New York Times'' (review), Feb. 4, 1981</ref> Her first role to gain widespread attention was that of Mrs. Carter, the drug-addicted mother of a promising young female student, in the 1989 film '']''. She is well known for her role as Lilly Harper on the early 1990s TV series '']''. This role won her a ] and also an ].
Her earliest professional acting roles were two ] while she was studying at ]: 1980's ''Nurse'' (1980) and '']'' (1981). In the latter movie, she was praised by critic John O'Connor of '']'' for her portrayal of ], a member of the ], a group of African-American students who braved violence and armed guards to integrate ] in 1957.<ref name="nyt1981">John O'Connor. , ''The New York Times'' (review), February 4, 1981.</ref>


Her first role to garner widespread attention was that of Mrs. Carter, the drug-addicted mother of a promising young female student, in the 1989 film '']''. She became well known to the television viewing public for her role as Lilly Harper on the early 1990s TV series '']''. This role won her a ] and also an ]. In 2018, Taylor had a role as Dr. Hannah Moshay in season 5 of the highly successful NBC crime thriller series '']''.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}
Since then she has had some critical success for various supporting roles in films, such as the ] film '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and for the telefilms '']'' and '']'' &mdash; a Showtime original film in which she portrayed ] &mdash; and as the lead in the PBS telefilm '']'', based on a Langston Hughes short story. She was a cast member for all four seasons of the ] drama '']'' as ], the tough-minded housewife who holds the women of 'the Unit' together when their men are on covert assignments.


Since then she has had various supporting roles in films, such as the ] film '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and for the films '']'' and '']'' &mdash; a Showtime original film in which she portrayed ] &mdash; and as the lead in the PBS telefilm '']'', based on a ] short story. She was a cast member for all four seasons of the ] drama '']''.
Taylor is also an accomplished stage actress, and was the first black woman to play Juliet in '']'' on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include '']'' and '']''. She has also appeared off-Broadway and regionally in numerous productions, including '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']'', for which she received a Dramalogue Award.


Taylor is also an accomplished stage actress, and was the first black woman to play ] in '']'' on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include '']'' and '']''. She appeared in Off-Broadway and regional productions of such plays as '']'' (Off-Broadway, 1999),<ref>McGrath, Sean and ]. , playbill.com, August 13, 1999.</ref> '']'' (Off-Broadway, 1990), ''L'Illusion'' (Off-Broadway, 1988),<ref> lortel.org, accessed August 6, 2015</ref> and '']'' (Off-Broadway, Public Theatre). She appeared as "Ariel" in '']'' at the ], California in 1987, for which she received a Dramalogue Award.<ref name=crow/><ref>Drake, Sylvie. , ''Los Angeles Times'', September 15, 1987.</ref>
===Playwriting===
A prolific playwright, Taylor is a Distinguished Artistic Associate of Chicago's ]. Among her accomplishments, she has collaborated on and appeared in the play ''Millennium Mambo''; has written ''A Night in Tunisia'', which premiered during the 2000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival; curated ] (an evening of plays by ], ], ] and ]); has won a best new play award from the American Critics' Association for '']'' (a work about 1940s female jazz musicians); has written and directed the award-winning '']'', which was first produced at the ] and at ] in New York; has written and directed an adaptation of ]'s '']'' called ''Drowning Crow''; and has written and directed ''The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove'', a dramatic rendering of the financial gains and emotional losses of African-American hair culturist ], which received its world premiere production in 2004/2005 at the ]. Her other plays include '']'', a one-woman show; ''Watermelon Rinds''; ''Inside the Belly of the Beast''; ''Mudtracks''; and ''Love Poem #97''.


In 2016, Taylor starred in the original pilot of ] as Vanessa Anders, but was replaced by ] before the series aired, containing a new pilot with Parker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvline.com/2016/06/22/time-after-time-recast-nicole-ari-parker-replaces-regina-taylor/|title=ABC's ''Time After Time'' Drama Recast: Nicole Ari Parker In, Regina Taylor Out|first=Matt Webb|last=Mitovich|date=June 22, 2016|work=]|access-date=August 26, 2016}}</ref>
Taylor is currently the writer-in-residence at the ] in ], where she developed a new play ''Magnolia'', set during the beginning of desegregation in Atlanta in 1961.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} It had its world premiere at the ] in Chicago in March, 2009 <ref></ref> after going through a workshop in 2008 at the National Playwrights' Conference at the ] in Waterford, CT <!--this information is found in a Waterford newspaper called The Day or Daybreak (see www.theday.com)-->.<ref> listing of productions by year and by program</ref> Taylor will be returning to ] in January and February 2011 for the world premiere of her new play entitled The Trinity River Plays, a co-production with ] directed by Ethan McSweeny. The production is a trilogy composed of Jar Fly, Rain, and Ghoststory.<ref>http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140153-Taylors-Trinity-River-Plays-Added-to-Goodman-Slate-in-2011-Abbey-and-Teatro-Vista-Shows-Announced</ref>


==Playwriting==
Her play "Crowns" was produced at (i) the Meroney Theater in Salisbury, North Carolina with the Piedmont Players In May, 2009,<ref></ref> (ii) at the ] in co-production with ] in July 2009 and (iii) and at ] in Syracuse, NY and Connecticut Repertory Theatre in Storrs, CT in May, 2009.
As of 2022, Taylor is currently the writer-in-residence at the ], where her play ''stop. reset.'' premiered at the ] Pershing Square Signature Center on September 8, 2013. Taylor also directed the production.<ref>, signaturetheatre.org. Accessed September 10, 2022.</ref><ref>Purcell, Carey. , playbill.com, September 8, 2013.</ref>

She wrote ''Escape from Paradise'', a one-woman show which was produced at the Goodman Theatre Studio, Chicago, in October 1995. Her short plays ''Watermelon Rinds'' and ''Inside the Belly of the Beast'' were incorporated into a program at the Goodman Theatre Studio in 1994.<ref>Christiansen, Richard. {{"'}}Escape from Paradise' A Surreal Trip", ''Chicago Tribune'', October 31, 1995.</ref><ref name="goodman" /> She wrote and appeared in the play ''Millennium Mambo'', a one-woman work, presented at the Goodman Theatre in February 2000.<ref>Simonson, Robert. , playbill.com, February 14, 2000.</ref> She wrote the play ''A Night in Tunisia'', which premiered during the 2000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival.<ref>Jones, Kenneth. , playbill.com, May 23, 2000.</ref>

In 2000, Taylor won a best new play award from the American Critics' Association for ''Oo-Bla-Dee'', a play about 1940s female jazz musicians. The Goodman Theatre produced the play in 1999.<ref>Jones, Kenneth. , playbill.com, April 2, 2000.</ref>

She wrote and directed '']'', which is a co-production of the ], where it premiered in October 2002<ref>, mccarter.org, accessed August 8, 2015.</ref> and the ], produced in December 2002. ''Crowns'' is described by '']'' as a "play-with-gospel-music", and is based on the book of the same name of photographs by Michael Cunningham and journalist Craig Marberry.<ref>Hernandez, Ernio. , playbill.com, December 3, 2002.</ref> ''Crowns'' has been produced in various locations, including the Meroney Theater in ] with The Piedmont Players<ref></ref> in May 2009; the ] in ] in September 2004, the ] in co-production with ] in July 2009; ] in ]; at the ] in ] in May 2009 and at the Electric City Playhouse in ] in May 2011. ''Crowns'' was the most performed musical in the country in 2006. It won four Helen Hayes Awards (for Washington, D.C. productions), including Taylor's win for Best Direction as well as Best Regional Musical.<ref name=goodman>, goodmantheatre.org, accessed August 6, 2015.</ref><ref>Simonson, Robert. , playbill.com, May 11, 2004.</ref>

She wrote and directed an adaptation of ]'s '']'' titled ''Drowning Crow''. ''Drowning Crow'' was produced on Broadway in February 2004 by the ] at the ], directed by Marion McClinton.<ref name=crow>Jones, Kenneth. , playbill.com, February 19, 2004.</ref><ref>, playbillvault.com, accessed August 6, 2015.</ref>

She wrote and directed ''The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove'', a dramatic rendering of the financial gains and emotional losses of African-American businesswoman ], which received its world premiere production in January 2005 at the ].<ref>Jones, Kenneth. , playbill.com, May 10, 2004.</ref>

Taylor's play ''Magnolia'', set during the beginning of desegregation in Atlanta in 1963, premiered at Chicago's ] in March 2009 directed by ].<ref>, goodmantheatre.org, accessed August 6, 2015</ref><ref>Jones, Kenneth. . playbill.com, March 14, 2009.</ref> after receiving a workshop production in July 2008 at the National Playwrights' Conference at the ] in ].<ref>. oneilltheatercenter.org.</ref><ref>Hetrick, Adam. , playbill.com, July 3, 2008.</ref>

Taylor returned to the ] in January and February 2011 for the world premiere of her new play entitled ''The Trinity River Plays'', a co-production with ], directed by ]. The production is a trilogy composed of ''Jar Fly'', ''Rain'', and ''Ghoststory''.<ref>Jones, Kenneth. , playbill.com, June 7, 2010.</ref>

Taylor's 2017 play ''A Seat at the Table'' was commissioned by ]'s Theatre Department, the ninth play commissioned as part of their New Play Initiative. The play tells the story of the life of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. The production was invited to the 2018 region 3 ].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.carthage.edu/arts/experience-the-arts/theatre-dance-performances/new-play-initiative/ | title=New Play Initiative }}</ref>

==Personal life==
According to a DNA analysis, she is descended, mainly, from the ] of ] and the ] of ].<ref>. YouTube</ref> Taylor is a member of ] sorority.

In 1982, she married artist Mario Emes.<ref></ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable"| Notes
|-
| 1980
| ''Nurse''
| Unknown
|
|-
| 1981
| '']''
| Minniejean Brown
| Television movie
|-
| 1984
| '']''
| Burnetta
| Episode: "Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion"
|-
| 1989
| '']''
| Mrs. Carter
|
|-
| 1991
| '']''
| Evelyn Griggs
| Episode: "Mushrooms"
|-
| 1991–1993
| '']''
| Lilly Harper
| 38 episodes<br>]<br>]<br>] <small>(1992–93)</small><br>Nominated—] <small>(1992–93)</small>
|-
| 1992
| '']''
| Rosie
|
|-
| 1993
| '']''
| Lilly Harper
| Television movie
|-
| 1994
| '']''
| Sarah Maslin
| Episode: "Virtue"
|-
| 1995
| '']''
| Drusilla
| Television movie<br>Nominated—]
|-
| 1995
| '']''
| Gussie
|
|-
| 1995
| '']''
| Iris Jeeter
| Nominated—]
|-
| 1995
| '']''
| Angela Lamont
|
|-
| 1996
| '']''
| Ann
|
|-
| 1996
| '']''
| Meredith Serling
| Nominated—]
|-
| 1997
| '']''
| Willy
|
|-
| 1997
| '']''
| Lieutenant Curtis
| Television movie
|-
| 1997
| '']''
| Sergeant Michelle Delaware
| Television movie
|-
| 1998
| '']''
| Karen Roman
|
|-
| 1999
| '']''
| Anita Hill
| Television movie<br>Nominated—]
|-
| 2000
| '']''
| Cora Jenkins
| Television movie
|-
| 2001–2002
| '']''
| Judith Bryant
| 22 episodes
|-
| 2006–2009
| '']''
| Molly Blane
| 69 episodes<br>]<br>Nominated—]
|-
| 2006
| '']''
| Dr. A. Gardner
| Television movie
|-
| 2008
| '']''
| Greta
| Episode: "Losing My Mind"
|-
| 2010
| '']''
| Megan Norton
| Television movie
|-
| 2015
| '']''
| Ruth Lidell
| TV series
|-
| 2016
| '']''
| Vanessa Anders
| Unaired pilot
|-
|2016
|]
|Dr. Wilkerson
|S05-E15
|-
| 2017
| '']''
| Aunt Rose
|
|-
| 2018
| '']''
| Dr. Hannah Moshay
| Episode: Pattie Sue Edwards
|-
|2020
| '']''
| Hattie
|
|-
| 2020
| '']''
| Tommetta
|
|-
| 2022
| '']''
| ]
|
|-
| 2022
| '']''
| NYPD Captain Terrell
| Episode: "]"
|-
| 2023
| '']''
|Councilwoman
| Episode: "There Goes The Neighborhood"
|-
| 2023
| '']''
| Raquel Williams
| Episode: "The Promise"
|-
| 2024
| '']''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/shatara-michelle-ford-test-pattern-filmmaker-next-film-1235019816/|title=Indie Spirit-Nominated ‘Test Pattern’ Filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford Has Completed Next Film|website=]|first=Kate|last=Erbland|date=June 25, 2024|access-date=August 1, 2024}}</ref>
| Bernice
|
|}


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American actress (born 1960)

Regina Taylor
Taylor in 2010
Born (1960-08-22) August 22, 1960 (age 64)
EducationSouthern Methodist University (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active1980–present

Regina Taylor (born August 22, 1960) is an American actress and playwright. She has won several awards throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award. In July 2017, Taylor was announced as the new Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theater at Fordham University.

Early life and education

At the age of 12, Taylor moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma. The family later returned to Dallas, where she graduated from L. G. Pinkston High School in 1977.

Acting

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Her earliest professional acting roles were two made-for-television films while she was studying at Southern Methodist University: 1980's Nurse (1980) and Crisis at Central High (1981). In the latter movie, she was praised by critic John O'Connor of The New York Times for her portrayal of Minnijean Brown, a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who braved violence and armed guards to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Her first role to garner widespread attention was that of Mrs. Carter, the drug-addicted mother of a promising young female student, in the 1989 film Lean on Me. She became well known to the television viewing public for her role as Lilly Harper on the early 1990s TV series I'll Fly Away. This role won her a Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Television Drama and also an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. In 2018, Taylor had a role as Dr. Hannah Moshay in season 5 of the highly successful NBC crime thriller series The Blacklist.

Since then she has had various supporting roles in films, such as the Spike Lee film Clockers, Courage Under Fire, A Family Thing, The Negotiator, and for the films Losing Isaiah and Strange Justice — a Showtime original film in which she portrayed Anita Hill — and as the lead in the PBS telefilm Cora Unashamed, based on a Langston Hughes short story. She was a cast member for all four seasons of the CBS drama The Unit.

Taylor is also an accomplished stage actress, and was the first black woman to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include Macbeth and As You Like It. She appeared in Off-Broadway and regional productions of such plays as Jar the Floor (Off-Broadway, 1999), Machinal (Off-Broadway, 1990), L'Illusion (Off-Broadway, 1988), and A Map of the World (Off-Broadway, Public Theatre). She appeared as "Ariel" in The Tempest at the La Jolla Playhouse, California in 1987, for which she received a Dramalogue Award.

In 2016, Taylor starred in the original pilot of Time After Time as Vanessa Anders, but was replaced by Nicole Ari Parker before the series aired, containing a new pilot with Parker.

Playwriting

As of 2022, Taylor is currently the writer-in-residence at the Signature Theatre, where her play stop. reset. premiered at the off-Broadway Pershing Square Signature Center on September 8, 2013. Taylor also directed the production.

She wrote Escape from Paradise, a one-woman show which was produced at the Goodman Theatre Studio, Chicago, in October 1995. Her short plays Watermelon Rinds and Inside the Belly of the Beast were incorporated into a program at the Goodman Theatre Studio in 1994. She wrote and appeared in the play Millennium Mambo, a one-woman work, presented at the Goodman Theatre in February 2000. She wrote the play A Night in Tunisia, which premiered during the 2000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

In 2000, Taylor won a best new play award from the American Critics' Association for Oo-Bla-Dee, a play about 1940s female jazz musicians. The Goodman Theatre produced the play in 1999.

She wrote and directed Crowns, which is a co-production of the McCarter Theatre, where it premiered in October 2002 and the Second Stage Theatre, produced in December 2002. Crowns is described by Playbill as a "play-with-gospel-music", and is based on the book of the same name of photographs by Michael Cunningham and journalist Craig Marberry. Crowns has been produced in various locations, including the Meroney Theater in Salisbury, North Carolina with The Piedmont Players in May 2009; the Zach Theatre in Austin, Texas in September 2004, the Pasadena Playhouse in co-production with Ebony Repertory Theatre in July 2009; Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York; at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre in Storrs, Connecticut in May 2009 and at the Electric City Playhouse in Anderson, South Carolina in May 2011. Crowns was the most performed musical in the country in 2006. It won four Helen Hayes Awards (for Washington, D.C. productions), including Taylor's win for Best Direction as well as Best Regional Musical.

She wrote and directed an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull titled Drowning Crow. Drowning Crow was produced on Broadway in February 2004 by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Biltmore Theatre, directed by Marion McClinton.

She wrote and directed The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, a dramatic rendering of the financial gains and emotional losses of African-American businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker, which received its world premiere production in January 2005 at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Taylor's play Magnolia, set during the beginning of desegregation in Atlanta in 1963, premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in March 2009 directed by Anna Shapiro. after receiving a workshop production in July 2008 at the National Playwrights' Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut.

Taylor returned to the Goodman Theatre in January and February 2011 for the world premiere of her new play entitled The Trinity River Plays, a co-production with Dallas Theater Center, directed by Ethan McSweeny. The production is a trilogy composed of Jar Fly, Rain, and Ghoststory.

Taylor's 2017 play A Seat at the Table was commissioned by Carthage College's Theatre Department, the ninth play commissioned as part of their New Play Initiative. The play tells the story of the life of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. The production was invited to the 2018 region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

Personal life

According to a DNA analysis, she is descended, mainly, from the Mende people of Sierra Leone and the Kru people of Liberia. Taylor is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

In 1982, she married artist Mario Emes.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1980 Nurse Unknown
1981 Crisis at Central High Minniejean Brown Television movie
1984 American Playhouse Burnetta Episode: "Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion"
1989 Lean on Me Mrs. Carter
1991 Law & Order Evelyn Griggs Episode: "Mushrooms"
1991–1993 I'll Fly Away Lilly Harper 38 episodes
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Actress in a Quality Drama Series (1992–93)
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1992–93)
1992 Jersey Girl Rosie
1993 I'll Fly Away: Then and Now Lilly Harper Television movie
1994 Law & Order Sarah Maslin Episode: "Virtue"
1995 Children of the Dust Drusilla Television movie
Nominated—Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1995 Losing Isaiah Gussie
1995 Clockers Iris Jeeter Nominated—Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
1995 The Keeper Angela Lamont
1996 A Family Thing Ann
1996 Courage Under Fire Meredith Serling Nominated—Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
1997 Spirit Lost Willy
1997 Hostile Waters Lieutenant Curtis Television movie
1997 The Third Twin Sergeant Michelle Delaware Television movie
1998 The Negotiator Karen Roman
1999 Strange Justice Anita Hill Television movie
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
2000 Cora Unashamed Cora Jenkins Television movie
2001–2002 The Education of Max Bickford Judith Bryant 22 episodes
2006–2009 The Unit Molly Blane 69 episodes
Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Nominated—Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
2006 In From the Night Dr. A. Gardner Television movie
2008 Grey's Anatomy Greta Episode: "Losing My Mind"
2010 Who Is Clark Rockefeller? Megan Norton Television movie
2015 Dig Ruth Lidell TV series
2016 Time After Time Vanessa Anders Unaired pilot
2016 Elementary Dr. Wilkerson S05-E15
2017 Saturday Church Aunt Rose
2018 The Blacklist Dr. Hannah Moshay Episode: Pattie Sue Edwards
2020 Lovecraft Country Hattie
2020 All Day & A Night Tommetta
2022 The First Lady Marian Shields Robinson
2022 Blue Bloods NYPD Captain Terrell Episode: "On the Arm"
2023 East New York Councilwoman Episode: "There Goes The Neighborhood"
2023 CSI: Vegas Raquel Williams Episode: "The Promise"
2024 Dreams in Nightmares Bernice

References

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  2. Morris, Tanisia, "Golden Globe Winner Named New Denzel Chair", Fordham News, July 6, 2017.
  3. "Black History Month: Local legends in music, theater, dance, and more" Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, The Dallas Morning News, February 3, 2006
  4. John O'Connor. "TV: Little Rock, 1957: 'Crisis at Central High'", The New York Times (review), February 4, 1981.
  5. McGrath, Sean and Simonson, Robert. "Second Stage's Jar the Floor to Open on Aug. 16", playbill.com, August 13, 1999.
  6. "Regina Taylor Off-Broadway listing" lortel.org, accessed August 6, 2015
  7. ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Regina Taylor Gives Chekhov New Wings With 'Drowning Crow', Opening Feb. 19", playbill.com, February 19, 2004.
  8. Drake, Sylvie. "Woodruff Staging At La Jolla: Tracking An Erratic 'Tempest'", Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1987.
  9. Mitovich, Matt Webb (June 22, 2016). "ABC's Time After Time Drama Recast: Nicole Ari Parker In, Regina Taylor Out". TVLine. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  10. "stop. reset." listing, signaturetheatre.org. Accessed September 10, 2022.
  11. Purcell, Carey. World Premiere of Regina Taylor's 'stop. reset.' Opens Sept. 8 at Signature Theatre", playbill.com, September 8, 2013.
  12. Christiansen, Richard. "'Escape from Paradise' A Surreal Trip", Chicago Tribune, October 31, 1995.
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  30. Mario Emes
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Awards for Regina Taylor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama
1969–1979
1980–1999
2000–2019
2020–present
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
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