Taylor Coriell

Writer/Director at Ginger Rage Media
Screenwriter, Producer and Director

New York City, New York

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February 2012

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About Taylor

A redhead who hails from Kentucky, Taylor Coriell is a bicoastal writer, director, and award-winning filmmaker addicted to stories about the people and places that make you feel at home with yourself, through the lens of ladycentric dramedies and buddy comedies.

Taylor was a Finalist for the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship 2022, Atlanta Film Festival's 2022 TV pilot competition & Catalyst Content Festival's 2019 Live Pitch Competition, and a Semifinalist for Script Pipeline's 2021 TV pilot competition, Screencraft’s 2022 Diverse Voices Lab, & the 2017 & 2018 Sundance New Voices Labs. Her feature, Ladylike, has also received three 8's on The Black List and was in the Top 15% for the 2022 Nicholl Fellowship.

The first season of her digital series, You're The Pest, made a highly successful run of the 2018-2019 international festival circuit, collecting awards and nominations for Best Acting, Best Ensemble, Best Writing, Best Comedy, and Best of The Fests along the way.

Taylor currently serves as the producer's assistant on Hulu's Life & Beth. Taylor is a member of NYWIFT, Ghetto Film Roster, The Alliance for Women in Media, and Big Vision, Empty Wallet's Kickstart Diversity incubator. Taylor also volunteers for Fair Fight Action, Hood To The Holler, and NYC Parks’ Tree Stewardship Program.

On a related note, Taylor drinks a lot of coffee. On an unrelated note, Barack Obama follows her on Twitter (no, for real). Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @frecklysoprano1 :-)

Unique traits: Freckles

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 8"

Weight:
145

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Long

Hair color:
Red

Eyes:
Green

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Always Blue Comedy Always Blue is an hour-long dramedy about a smart, determined political organizer who decides to run for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat against the divisive, longtime incumbent, who also happens to be her estranged father. Think Gilmore Girls meets The West Wing.Script and deck available on request.
Ladylike Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Comedy Ladylike is a post-Gilded Age buddy comedy about two young society women who disguise themselves as men to sneak into New York City's Players Club to meet their hero, Sarah Bernhardt, on her historic visit in 1911. Simply put, it’s Booksmart meets Room With a View. You can read reviews for this script on The Black List, where it has earned three 8's. You can also check out our teaser at our website! Script and deck available on request.
There's No Christmas Like Show Christmas Romance ⋄ Comedy There’s No Christmas Like Show Christmas is a second chance romantic comedy about a hyper successful composer who is forced to reconnect with her ex after ten years of separation when she’s baited into writing a new Christmas musical with him for their hometown community theatre.Script and deck available on request.
Check Me Out Romance ⋄ Comedy Check Me Out is an opposites-attract rom com feature about a passionate public librarian who struggles to coexist in close quarters with the entrepreneurial barista whose coffee shop occupies the space she once vied for.Treatment and two-pager available on request.
squish Other ⋄ Drama squish is a surreal dramedy short about an atypical anorexic woman’s mental landscape externalized by an uncomfortable, inescapable sweater.Script and deck available on request.
You're The Pest Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy Two estranged childhood friends - a beauty pageant veteran and a police academy drop-out - are thrown back into each others’ lives when forced to inherit their families' extermination business in Queens.

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Credits

Bite Me (2016)
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Easter Mysteries (2016)
Film (Musical) Actress An Oratorio Musical directed by Daniel Goldstein (2011 Broadway revival of Godspell) that features a culturally diverse cast of talented Broadway veterans who have graced the stages of Les Miserables, Mary Poppins, Porgy and Bess, Phantom of The Opera, and more. Easter Mysteries is the first depiction of Christ's death and resurrection told through the lens of Peter his disciple. This portrayal sheds a new light onto this historical story in human terms - ordinary people with hopes, dreams and fears, uncertain of what lies ahead. Journeying into the passion of Christ's death and resurrection is no easy undertaking, but, in their search, his most-beloved followers learned the most valuable lesson of love. Written by Ron Simons
This Is My Roommate (2016)
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Landing Up (2016)
Film Miscellaneous Crew When a young woman finds herself living life on the streets she learns the art of picking up men to put a roof over her head. But when she meets the guy of her dreams her secret threatens to ruin their perfect relationship.
Five Dollars or Less (2015)
Film (Short and Comedy) Actress While struggling to decide whether or not to give up on his dream of stand up comedy, Sean discovers his bank accounts are all in the negative, and he must survive by using a loop hole in his bank's rules.
Darr's Dinner Dates (2015)
Television (Comedy) Actress Sean enlists the help of a matchmaker to find him the perfect girl, unfortunately for Sean his matchmaker knows even less about women then he does, setting him up for one disaster date after another.