Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Acclaimed Actress & Playwright, Regina Taylor

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Regina Taylor, is a multi-award-winning, highly acclaimed actress, director, playwright, educator, and activist whose contributions to the arts and to social justice have been nothing short of monumental. As an actress, she’s brought us dozens of unforgettable performances, especially “Lilly Harper” in the groundbreaking TV series, “I’ll Fly Away”, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series, as well as receiving 2 Emmy Award nominations, 3 NAACP Image Awards, an American Television Award, and TWO Viewers for Quality Television Awards. 

We also remember her as “Judith Bryant” in “The Education of Max Bickford”, “Molly Blane” in “The Unit”, and she portrayed Anita Hill in the 1999 TV movie, “Strange Justice”, for which she won a Peabody Award and a Gracie Award. She also portrayed Michelle Obama’s mother in the 2022 TV series, “First Lady”. On the big screen, she’s appeared in some great movies including “Lean on Me”, “Losing Isaiah”, “Clockers”, “The Keeper”, “A Family Thing”, “Courage Under Fire”, “The Negotiator”, “A Jenkins Family Christmas” and many more. And on television, besides her iconic performances in the shows I’ve already mentioned, she’s guest starred in dozens of classic series including “Law & Order”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “The Good Fight”, “The Wonder Years”, “The Red Line” and “CSI: Vegas”, to name only a few.  

And she’s also co-starred in some terrific TV movies and miniseries including “Crisis at Central High”, “I’ll Fly Away: Then and Now”, “Children of the Dust”, “Cora Unashamed”, “Dig”, “Justified: City Primeval” and many more. And our guest has also had a spectacular career in the theatre. She was the first Black woman to play “Juliet” in “Romeo and Juliet” on Broadway. And she’s been in 3 other Broadway shows: “Macbeth”, “As You Like it”, and “Drowning Crow”, which she also wrote. She’s a brilliant and celebrated playwright, known for such renowned plays as “Crowns”, “Ooo-Bla-Dee”, “Magnolia”, “The Trinity River Plays”, “Escape from Paradise”, “Bread”, “A Seat at the Table” and “Between the Lines”, to mention only a few. 

The list of accolades and awards our guest has received for her work in theatre over the years is jaw dropping. She’s been the playwright-in-residence at the Repertory Theatre of St. Lewis, she received the Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theatre at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, and she’s an artistic associate at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago.  She’s received 4 Helen Hayes Awards, 3 Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Steinberg Award presented by the American Theatre Critics Association, and the Los Angeles Dramalogue Award.  She’s a recipient of the Hope Abelson Award from Northwestern University and the Spirit of Sinai Award from the Sinai Community Institute, and she’s received honorary doctorate degrees from DePaul University, Columbia College and Lake Forest College, in recognition of her strong commitment to social justice through art.

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