She appeared in Off-Broadway and regional productions of such plays as "Jar the Floor" (Off-Broadway, 1999), "Machinal" (Off-Broadway, 1990), "L'Illusion" (Off-Broadway, 1988), and "A Map of the World" (Off-Broadway, Public Theatre). She appeared as "Ariel" in "The Tempest" at the La Jolla Playhouse, California in 1987, for which she received a Dramalogue Award. In 2016, Taylor starred in the original pilot of "Time After Time" as Vanessa Anders, but was replaced by Nicole Ari Parker before the series aired, containing a new pilot with Parker. Taylor is currently the writer-in-residence at the Signature Theatre, where her new play "stop.reset." premiered at the Off-Broadway Pershing Square Signature Center on September 8, 2013. Taylor also directed the production. Taylor is a Distinguished Artistic Associate of Chicago's Goodman Theatre. She wrote "Escape From Paradise", a one-woman show which was produced at the Goodman Theatre Studio, Chicago, in October 1995. Her short plays "Watermelon Rinds" and "Inside the Belly of the Beast" were incorporated into a program at the Goodman Theatre Studio in 1994. Her other plays include "Mudtracks", "Love Poem #97" and "Love Poem #98." She wrote and appeared in the play "Millennium Mambo", a one-woman work, presented at the Goodman Theatre in February 2000. The work also included short pieces by playwrights Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange, Suzan-Lori Parks and Kia Corthron. She wrote the play "A Night in Tunisia", which premiered during the 2000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival. In 2000, Taylor won a best new play award from the American Critics' Association for "Oo-Bla-Dee", a play about 1940s female jazz musicians. The Goodman Theatre produced the play in 1999. She wrote and directed "Crowns", which is a co-production of the McCarter Theatre, where it premiered in October 2002 and the Second Stage Theatre, produced in December 2002. "Crowns" is described by "Playbill" as a "play-with-gospel-music", and is based on the book of the same name of photographs by Michael Cunningham and journalist Craig Marberry."Crowns" has been produced in various locations, including the Meroney Theater in Salisbury, North Carolina with The Piedmont Players in May 2009; the Zach Theatre in Austin, Texas in September 2004, the Pasadena Playhouse in co-production with Ebony Repertory Theatre in July 2009; Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York; at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre in Storrs, Connecticut in May 2009 and at the Electric City Playhouse in Anderson, SC in May 2011.