Wilna Julmiste Taylor

 

Wilna Julmiste Taylor Assistant Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy Visiting Artist, Department of Theatre, Vanderbilt University, is an actor, writer, producer, and art administrator.  Her interest and work include investigating the intersections of art and culture, social practice art, social justice, and highlighting her Haitian heritage. She is an alumna of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York.  She also studied acting at Rutgers University, The Wilma Theater, and the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Rutgers University, a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Drexel University and a Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. She is a MOSAIC Change Maker Fellow, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and the Leeway Foundation Art & Change grant. She is an award-winning film maker, her work has been produced nationally, internationally, and presented as official selection at several festivals. Wilna’s work has also been published in the 25th anniversary volume of The Caribbean Writer where the editor stated that her writing “resonated “and she was noted as an “emerging Haitian-American voice”.

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