Tommy Taylor (He/Him) is a Hamilton-based multifaceted artist whose creative journey spans over two decades. His work bridges the realms of theatre, activism, and community engagement as a storyteller, activist and artist. Recently at the 2022 Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA), the 2022 PXR Festival and the 2023 XR Live! Festival, he premiered the virtual reality adaptation of his one-man stage-hit about his arrest and detention at the infamous 2010 Toronto G20 Summit, You Should Have Stayed Home (which originally toured across Canada in 2013). The stage show version was also presented at the 2023 Hamilton Fringe Frost Bites Festival.  At Theatre Aquarius' 2024 Brave New Works Festival, Tommy shared a workshop reading of his work-in-progress, You Should Have Stayed Home Too, which details his time working on the frontlines of homelessness & overdose crisis during the COVID-19 pandmeic and beyiond. For the past several years he has been serving on the frontlines of our housing and homelessness crisis – in shelters, drop-ins and street & encampment outreach and was the previous Manager of Community Health Programs at Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre and the Toronto Drop-In Netowrk. In other select credits: Tommy’s original 2015 Toronto Fringe romp Uncle Tommy’s Campfire Ghost Stories also featured at Hamilton’s 2022 Supercrawl Festival and will be seen as part of the recent 2024 Hamilton Fringe Festival’s ‘Fringe in the Streets’ experience. He also directed the award-winning eco-cautionary tale Kayak at the 2011 Toronto Summerworks Festival, and spent almost a decade prior directing and performing with the Shakespearean company Forward Theatre at Mississauga’s Living Arts Centre. For the past several years he has been serving on the frontlines of our housing and homelessness crisis - in shelters, drop-ins and street & encampment outreach, recently as Manager of Community Health Programs at Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre. He's served on the steering committees of Health Providers Against Poverty (HPAP) and the Shelter & Housing Justice Network (SHJN) and ran as a candidate in the 2015 Federal Election. Tommy served on numerous COVID emergency response teams and was part of the team that led the planning and design of SafeTO, Toronto's Community Safety Well-Being Plan - radically changing how crisis intervention, violence, policing and trauma are approached. He is a graduate of George Brown College's Community Worker Program, the University of Waterloo/GVA's Income Management Program and the Vancouver Film School.