Robert Thaddeus Taylor was an American

United States

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 producer

Theatrical producer

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, director and founder of the Shakespeare Society of America.

Taylor

Robert Thaddeus Taylor was born August 29, 1925, in Wendell, Idaho

Wendell, Idaho

Wendell is a city in Gooding County, Idaho, United States. The population was 2,338 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Wendell is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

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Known as Thad Taylor, he was a founder of the Shakespeare Society of America in 1968, which built a mini replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...

 in West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, California

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. It was dedicated to the production of classical plays.
Taylor's Globe staged all of the plays in Shakespeare's first folio

First Folio

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. is the 1623 published collection of William Shakespeare's plays. Modern scholars commonly refer to it as the First Folio....

 at the playhouse as well as productions of Shakespeare Apocrypha

Shakespeare Apocrypha

The Shakespeare Apocrypha is a group of plays that have sometimes been attributed to William Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons...

 like The Birth of Merlin

The Birth of Merlin

The Birth of Merlin, or, The Child Hath Found his Father is a Jacobean play, first performed in 1622 at the Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch. It contains a comic depiction of the birth of the fully grown Merlin to a country girl, and also features figures from Arthurian legend, including Uther...

, The Puritan

The Puritan

The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street, also known as The Puritan Widow, is an anonymous Jacobean stage comedy, first published in 1607. It is often attributed to Thomas Middleton, but also belongs to the Shakespeare Apocrypha due to its title page attribution to "W.S.".-Date and...

and Sir John Oldcastle

Sir John Oldcastle

Sir John Oldcastle is an Elizabethan play about John Oldcastle, a controversial 14th-15th century rebel and Lollard who was seen by some of Shakespeare's contemporaries as a proto-Protestant martyr.-Publication:...

, the latter production directed by Taylor himself in 1986, and non-Shakespearean classics like The Alchemist

The Alchemist (play)

The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature...

. Among the awards Taylor received were the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award

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 (shared with DeVeren Bookwalter

DeVeren Bookwalter

DeVeren Bookwalter was a theatre actor and director who became the first person to win three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his production, direction and performance in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Globe Playhouse in 1975.Bookwalter served as a member of the board of trustees of the...

) for his production of Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac (play)

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and the Drama-Logue Award

Drama-Logue Award

The Drama-Logue Award was a theater award established in 1977, given by the publishers of Drama-Logue newspaper, a weekly west-coast theater trade publication. Winners were selected by the publication's theater critics, and would receive a certificate at an annual awards ceremony...

 for his direction of Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

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Taylor died on October 5, 2006 in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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Shakespeare Society of America

The artifacts, archives and memorabilia from Hollywood's Globe Theatre and the Shakespeare Society of America were moved to Moss Landing, California

Moss Landing, California

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in 2007. This collection includes the work, notes books, and photographs of Taylor. This collection is on public display at 7981 Moss Landing Road in Moss Landing.
the president of the society was Terry Taylor, son of the founder.