Taylor Rankin was a Core Apprentice at the Playwrights’ Center. The Core Apprentice Program at the Playwrights’ Center pairs student playwrights or recent graduates with professional mentors and offers full play development workshops at the Center.

Taylor Rankin is a playwright and screenwriter from Long Island, New York. Her writing explores the ideas of nostalgia, coming of age, and personal tensions within the family unit. Her plays have had readings at Chicago Dramatists and Northwestern University’s Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. Her fantasy animation screenplay, The City of Gale, placed highly in ScreenCraft’s and StoryPros’ competitions.