Noel David Taylor

Director, Screenwriter, Actor

NOEL DAVID TAYLOR

Director / Writer / Producer / Actor: Noel David Taylor, is a prolific English-American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and production designer. Known for co-writing and starring in the acclaimed films Paris Window (DTLA Film Festival, SF IndieFest, 2018) and Intervene starring Jane Adams and Kate Lyn Sheil (Coaxial, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, 2017). Taylor also co-wrote “Please Baby Please” starring Demi Moore and Harry Melling.

Taylor has created over forty accomplished shorts and experimental films. Through this body of work, Taylor has created an inimitable aesthetic universe: a unique alchemy of homemade nightmare comedy and an absurdist sense of tragedy. Blending their direction with their own art design, Noel creates off-beat parallel worlds that achieve a hyper-real emotional oddness and specificity. Their work has been featured in numerous venues and platforms including Vogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, Slamdance, and HollyShorts.

Their screenplays have also won several awards including, best screenplay at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival, semi-finalist in the Mallorca International Film Festival, Honorable Mention in Finish Line Script competition, and semifinalist in Finish Line and Wescreenplay competitions.

Some recent accomplishments include Dos Hombres (NoBudge, 2019), The Hermit, which won best comedy at the next Generation Indie Film Awards (NoBudge, 2021) and I Come Home One Day starring Amanda Plummer (HollyShorts Film Festival, 2020)

They were the production designer of the Adult Swim short web series Luxury (2020), and they also acted and production designed the critically acclaimed feature film Ladyworld (Fantastic Fest, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, 2018)

Taylor has directed a diverse set of music videos, including Dana Buoy’s “Satellite Ozone” (2012), Mike Edge’s “Been So Long” (2017), Callie Ryan’s “Paste” (2018), June Chikuma’s “Broadcast Profanity Delay” (2018), and Tolliver’s “Twisted” (2019).

Taylor's feature film directorial debut. Man Under Table, which received a four out of five review from The Guardian, is distributed by Arrow and premiered at Slamdance 2021.