South Carolina in May 2011. Crowns was the most performed musical in the country in 2006. It won four Helen Hayes Awards (for Washington, D.C. productions), including Taylor's win for Best Direction as well as Best Regional Musical. She wrote and directed an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull titled Drowning Crow. Drowning Crow was produced on Broadway in February 2004 by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Biltmore Theatre, directed by Marion McClinton. She wrote and directed The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, a dramatic rendering of the financial gains and emotional losses of African-American businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker, which received its world premiere production in January 2005 at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Taylor's play Magnolia, set during the beginning of desegregation in Atlanta in 1963, premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in March 2009 directed by Anna Shapiro. after receiving a workshop production in July 2008 at the National Playwrights' Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. Taylor returned to the Goodman Theatre in January and February 2011 for the world premiere of her new play entitled The Trinity River Plays, a co-production with Dallas Theater Center, directed by Ethan McSweeny. The production is a trilogy composed of Jar Fly, Rain, and Ghoststory. Personal life According to a DNA analysis, she is descended, mainly, from Mende people of Sierra Leone and of Kru people of Liberia. Taylor is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. In 1982, she married artist Mario Emes in New York City. Filmography References External links New Plays And Playwrights - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, January 2004 Regina Taylor bio at the American Theatre Wing website (2003) 1960 births American people of Sierra Leonean descent American people of Liberian descent African-American actresses American film actresses American television actresses Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (television) winners Living people People from Dallas Actresses from Oklahoma Writers from Muskogee, Oklahoma Actresses from Texas African-American dramatists and playwrights American dramatists and playwrights American people of Kru descent American people of Mende descent American women dramatists and playwrights 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women African-American women writers