"For me, harvesting as an actor means talking about my work, posting on social media, and making it easy for others to know about or see my acting. It means celebrating what has been created. Harvesting is the part of the acting process that generates the most fear for me. Maybe it does for you, too."

“Why are BIPOC Artists not given the same benefit of the doubt? Seriously you still can't be blind at this point to the double standards that happen far too much in this Industry.”

“Around ‘Hamilton’s release on DIsney+, many online began to ask: why isn’t every musical given this treatment? Like many things in show business, the answer to this question comes down to the business.”

“I need every theater organization that hired positions like mine over the past couple of years to understand that there was a real need for these positions to exist, and we must be allowed to do the work that is necessary.”

“Actors can have boundaries about where they want to be touched and still tell the story. The entire production team needs to think about boundaries if we are going to have a more humane profession.'“

“Positive encouragement and the sense of family in the theatre world should include trans and queer people,” Taylor affirms. “On stage and off.”

‘In a profession where one’s greatest strength is attributed as being open, vulnerable, and expressive, abuses of power can abound if boundaries are not clearly understood and respected by all parties.”

Super-producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh recently unloaded a wave of transphobic comments to a U.K. news site declaring he opposes transgender casting in classic shows because he considers it “gimmick casting” and such a decision would “damage the integrity of the original storylines”.

“I just wish performers who suffer from the stresses of social media, didn’t feel forced to engage in it because industry experts are telling them that their jobs can depend on it.”

“I’m so glad we’ve finally started having a conversation about how racism at Actors’ Equity and shady business practices are hurting artists but we haven’t had an airing out of the day-to-day policies that are making our working lives a living hell.”

“In what can only be described as a momentous change in professional theatre, the Actors’ Equity Association announced sweeping adjustments to its membership policies that will now allow any professional actor or stage manager to join the union. Many support the change, many oppose it. Let’s ask some questions.”

“The big change people are discovering within the past few years is that we can have boundaries in this work—actors can have boundaries about where they don’t want to be touched—and still tell the story.”