If Dominick Dunne and Sam Shepard gave birth to a girl playwright it would be Taylor Barton. She's got an ear that's sophisticated and worldly, yet her work captures the dark complexities that burn beneath our societal fabric. Compassionate, clever, quirky, and cutting are just a few words to describe her talent.

Her first play Pedro N' Pete; A Rock n' Roll Odyssey, debuted at Synchronicity Space and was the last show at the legendary Greenwich Village, Village Gate. The Eric Clapton Breakfast Club, a raucous kitchen-sink soap opera, was produced by Alice's 4th Floor, and was awarded a finalist in the 1995 Love Creek One-Act Festival in NYC. It also won a finalist in The 15th Playwright's Forum, and 'The Moving Arts' nationwide One-Act Competition. It has been published for Tower Books / Records and Border's Books and Music and is on sale now.

She has been produced and/or workshopped by some of NYC's legendary theatre's such as La Mama, Naked Angels, The Village Gate, Marymount Theatre, Alice's Fourth Floor, and The Woman's Project. She is a member of the Women's Project and was a participating artist in Susan Brinkley's Cherry Lane Theatre. Currently she's developing a new show called called Road Clips which was presented by the Woman's Project First Look series last spring.

After two decades of dialogue and melody, a new voice emerged. Her lyricism took shape in prose and thus a debut novel Hotheaded Saints, an evocative murder mystery, available in stores and online now.

What the critics have said about the award winning "The Eric Clapton Breakfast Club":

"Included in Barton's disc, the charming booklet of Barton's offbeat, one-act" — Relix Magazine 6/97

"A special treat.. Barton's play, The Eric Clapton Breakfast Club" — Jay Miller-Patriot Ledger 6/97
Click here to read a sample scene from the script