Tom Taylor (writer)

Tom Taylor was born in Melbourne, Australia.

Taylor has written X-Men: Red, All-New Wolverine and Hunt for Wolverine Adamantium Agenda for Marvel comics, along with Justice League/Power Rangers and Injustice 2 for DC Comics. He has also written Batman/Superman, Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion and Superior Iron Man.[2]

Taylor is the creator, with James Brouwer, of the all-ages adventure graphic novels The Deep: Here Be Dragons and its sequel The Vanishing Island published by Gestalt Publishing and Boom Studios. The Deep was optioned by Technicolor. 52 episodes have screened of the CG animated series, so far, across three seasons, with Taylor serving as co-creator/head writer.[3]

In 2012, The Deep: Here Be Dragons won the Aurealis Award for Best illustrated book/graphic novel, Australia's premier speculative fiction literary award. The sequel, The Vanishing Island, won the award again in 2014.

Performing and writing for theatre and musicals from the age of fourteen, Tom's works have been produced across four continents. His plays have won a number of awards and accolades including winning the award for 'Best Dramatic Writing' in Short and Sweet – The world's largest short play festival.[4]

His plays have been produced at the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Arts Centre and the Edinburgh Fringe.

Taylor is well known for his many Star Wars comics and graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics. These include, Star Wars: Blood Ties[5] with artist Chris Scalf, and Star Wars: Invasion, with illustrator Colin Wilson.[6] April 2012 saw the start of Taylor and Scalf's new Blood Ties series provocatively titled Boba Fett is Dead as reported by CNN.[7] Taylor is also the writer of the Darth Maul: Death Sentence miniseries, which is set immediately after the end of the fourth Clone Wars television series.

Star Wars: Blood Ties won the 2012 'Stan Lee Excelsior Award' as voted for by thousands of school students across the UK.

Taylor wrote the graphic novella, Star Wars Adventures: Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes which shows a never before seen story of Luke Skywalker training with Yoda on Dagobah during The Empire Strikes Back. Taylor also penned Star Wars Adventures: The Will of Darth Vader Randy Stradley, Dark Horse Vice President, says Tom Taylor has taken to writing comics faster than anyone he's ever seen.[8]

Taylor also wrote The Authority, published under the Wildstorm imprint, starting with issue #22 in May 2010 until the end of the Wildstorm imprint.[9] He also wrote The Brainiac / Sinestro Corps war storyline in the pages of DC Universe Online: Legends, a Batman story with artist Nicola Scott and Rose and Thorn with artist Neil Googe.

Taylor's award-winning play The Example has also been adapted into a comic book with illustration by Colin Wilson through Gestalt Publishing.[10]

Taylor is the co-creator, executive producer and head writer of The Deep (Animated Series)[17] The first series began airing on [Netflix] USA in 2016.[18]

Season 2 was confirmed and began airing on CBBC in July, 2017.

Taylor joined the writer's room of Cleverman for the third season[19]

Taylor wrote a short film adaptation of The Example which was optioned and filmed by Staple Fiction in 2011. It screened at Film Festivals around the world.

Taylor's award-winning short musical A4 to A3 (written with Simon Barlow) was filmed by Bravada Films in 2009, for which Taylor also wrote the screenplay. A4 to A3 premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on 29 April 2010.

• THE EXAMPLE
  • Sydney Opera House (Sydney AUS 2006)
  • Edinburgh Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland 2008)
  • The Edge Performing Arts Centre (Auckland, New Zealand 2010)
  • The Esplanade (Singapore 2006)
  • Brighton Festival Fringe (Brighton England 2006)
  • Brisbane Powerhouse (QLD AUS 2008)
  • Melbourne Arts Centre (Melbourne AUS 2005)
  • Seymour Centre (Sydney AUS 2006)
  • Araluen Arts Centre (Alice Springs N.T. 2008)
  • Darwin Entertainment Centre Darwin Australia 2008
  • Cairns Civic Theatre (QLD Australia 2008)
  • Rockhampton Performing Arts Centre QLD AUS 2008
  • Canberra Theatre Centre (ACT AUS 2008)
• DRIP
  • Stratton Players (Boston USA 2007)
  • Newtown Theatre (Sydney AUS 2009)
  • Carlton Courthouse (Melbourne Aus 2008)
• FALLING PRAYING
  • Edinburgh Fringe (Edinburgh, Scotland 2009)
  • Parade Playhouse National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney, AUS 2010)
  • Melbourne Arts Centre (Melbourne, Australia 2008)
• BELIEVE
  • Bite Size Theatre (Brighton England 2007)
  • Newtown Theatre (Sydney AUS 2007)
• PROTEST
  • Fairfax Theatre, Melbourne Arts Centre (Melbourne, Australia 2007)
  • Newtown Theatre (Sydney AUS 2007)
• MYSTERY FLIGHT
  • Chapel Off Chapel (Melbourne, Australia 2009)
• A4 2 A3 (with Simon Barlow)
  • National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney AUS 2007)
• CITY HEAD
  • Melbourne Trades Hall Melbourne AUS 2007
• NAZANIN
  • The BDP Ensemble (Brisbane AUS 2006)
• MY MONTH AS A MEMBER
  • Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre (Sydney AUS 2005)
• THE RATINGS WAR (With Daniel Hall and Simon Barlow)
  • La Mama Theatre Melbourne Comedy Festival Melbourne AUS 2004
• CANDIDATE (With Daniel Hall, Simon Barlow and Joe Guiton)
  • La Mama Theatre Melbourne Comedy Festival (Melbourne AUS 2003)
• HARD RUBBISH WEEK (Script coordinator)
  • The Athenaeum Theatre (Melbourne AUS 2003)

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• Tom Taylor Author Page at Amazon.com
• Official website
• Tom Taylor entry at doollee.com