Taylor Steele is a queer, Black, NYC-born-and-based writer and theatermaker. In 2025, she was a member of Fresh Ground Pepper’s PlayGround PlayGroup fellowship where she wrote her newest full-length play, “ROUND.” Her one-hour Afrofuturist play “Damages” was selected to be part of Ars Nova’s 2023 ANT Fest. That same year, her first short film “eXcape” was screened at NYCITFF and OutFest Fusion. Her pilots “Blue Sky,” “Psych-Ish” and “35 Bleak St.” have placed in several writing competitions, including the Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition, the Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, the Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship, and the Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest.