Editing Meshach Taylor (section)

===Theater and teleplays===
Taylor's first professional acting gig was in a national tour of ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]''. He honed his craft in repertory theater as a member of Chicago's [[Goodman Theatre]], and the [[Organic Theater Company]] alongside [[Joe Mantegna]], [[André DeShields]], [[Dennis Franz]], [[Keith Szarabajka]], Jack Wallace, and director [[Stuart Gordon]]. While in Chicago, he appeared in David Rabe's ''Streamers'', ''Native Son'' (1979 [[Joseph Jefferson Award]] Nomination for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play), ''[[The Island (play)|The Island]]'' and [[Athol Fugard]]’s ''[[Sizwe Banzi Is Dead]]'', for which he garnered the 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play. He received an Emmy Award for his role as Jim in the [[WTTW]] production of ''[[Huckleberry Finn]]'' and hosted the Chicago television show ''Black Life''. In 1998, Taylor made his [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut as Lumiere in ''[[Beauty and the Beast (musical)|Beauty and the Beast]]'', where he starred alongside [[Toni Braxton]].<ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=82306 Internet Broadway Database]</ref> In September 2012, he appeared in ''Year of the Rabbit'' at Ensemble Studio Theater-LA as Vietnam veteran JC Bridges.<ref name="talkinbroadway.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/la/la360.html|work=talkinbroadway.com|first=Sharon|last=Perlmutter|title=Year of the Rabbit|date=September 2012}}</ref>