About Me
My name is Desire Lovey Mae Taylor I am an actor, singer, dancer, writer, and activist born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. I was raised by two teen parents and brought up under difficult circumstances. I first fell in love with performance when watching my favorite shows on PBS like Zoom and Sesame Street. It was fascinating seeing kids learning and performing right on my TV. It was during that time that I would host mandatory talent contests in my living room where my parents couldn’t move from their seats on the couch. They watched my sisters and I dazzle them with our beautiful performances and would score us like judges. I was so competitive! But ever since I was very young, I knew I wanted to be a star. I was an avid reader and writer as a child with a vivid imagination that always swept me away and kept me daydreaming. I never ran out of stories to tell. When I wasn’t winning spelling bee’s at school I was performing my favorite poems in unique accents to my family.
It was in high school that I experienced my first taste of theatre after being cast in Jesus Christ superstar, I fell in love. Pretty soon I was doing 2 and 3 musicals a year. I was so proud to have been apart of a school choir since middle school and well into high school making it into the honors choir. That dedication allowed me to secure my first lead role in HAIR the musical and then I knew that entertaining was something I was meant to do.
I wanted to do whatever it took to follow my dreams. I received an associate of arts degree in theatre with honors in 2018 from Owens Community College. I was the first student to ever do so after writing my first play a one woman show called You’re Going to the Moon, a story about the struggles my own mother had raising me with little to no community resources as a teen mother. I hosted a talkback with my audience about the subject and what could be done to help current mothers in that situation. That was when I realized I wanted to incorporate my activism with my art. I knew then that I wanted to promote healing and education through my work.
I am currently working towards becoming an intimacy coordinator where I can teach proper boundaries and techniques to actors working through traumatic and/or triggering work. My artistry is truth telling. I love to create and devise new work that is honest and holds space to tell the stories that need to be told specifically about BIPOC and the LGBTQ+ community. I enjoy connecting to other souls this way in hopes that my work is a catalyst that sparks needed conversations. By any means necessary I will create these safe spaces.
