Heidi Taylor is a Vancouver-based dramaturg, director and performer. She has been Artistic and Executive Director at PTC since 2012, after serving as Dramaturg for 7 years. Heidi has dramaturged plays from across the country in the PTC Writers Colony, and works closely with the PTC Associates. Her practice includes sited, devised, and interdisciplinary work. As a director, production dramaturg and producer, she has worked on over 40 new plays in the last ten years. Heidi holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University, where she has taught intro acting since 2001. She was recently awarded one of four inaugural Bly Creative Capacity grants from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas for an inclusion project (the ACKLab) with Jan Derbyshire. Upcoming projects include Tinkers by Kendra Fanconi, in a site-specific production on the Sunshine Coast, and works with Carmen Aguirre, Hiro Kanagawa, Quelemia Sparrow and Adrienne Wong.