Zavier Taylor

Abstraction & Technology are tools I use to expand the perspectives of audiences through education & exposure to new ideas and ways of thinking.

My Name is Zavier Augustus Lee Taylor.

I'm an Artist, Actor, Designer, and Filmmaker from North Carolina currently based in the DMV area.

I have a vested interest in explorations of technology, education, the human form, blackness, mental health, nature, and abstraction.

I specialize in the creation of Motion Graphics, Live Performance, Video Content, and Digital Art.

I am currently earning an MFA in Media/Projection Design at UMD-College Park. I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2019 with a BA in Dramatic Art with a concentration in Performance Studies and New Media.

I am also the sole proprietor of ZALT Productions; my multimedia production and design company. Art has always been my greatest passion. Over the past few years, I realized that I had no greater desire than to be hands-on in the creation of new work. It was for this reason that I started ZALT Productions.

ZALT Productions is a creative entity that enables people and businesses to fully realize their potential through design.

If you are looking for any manner of artwork, projection, animation, graphic, photography, videography or theatrical service you can contact me anytime at zaltslaw@gmail.com or the Contact Page.

If you have any questions about our services or work, please don't hesitate to ask.

PREVIOUS WORK

---2015---

Actor/Dancer in The Existential Imagination | Kenan Theatre Company

Actor in All in the Timing | Company Carolina

Technical Staff | Carolina Performing Arts

---2016---

Actor in The Cherry Orchard | Kenan Theatre Company

Actor in Distracted | Kenan Theatre Company

Projection/Video/Sound Design for Unpacking Longview | UNC Process Series

Video/Sound Design for Black Pioneers Project | UNC Process Series

---2017---

Actor in Orange Light | Kenan Theatre Company

Video/Projection Designer for Orange Light | Kenan Theatre Company

Actor & Production Assistant for Making A Profit | UNC-DDA

Assistant Video/Projection Designer for Closer Than They Appear | UNC Process Series

Master Electrician for Antigonik | Kenan Theatre Company

Video/Projection Designer for The Four Underwear Models of the Apocalypse | Swain Studio Six

Technician for The Kritik | Kenan Theatre Company

Deck Crew for Sense & Sensibility | Playmakers Repertory Company

Projection Technician for Die Winterreise: A Digital Reinvention | UNC Process Series

Projection Designer for Shadows of Ferguson | Carolina Planning

---2018---

Video/Projection Designer for The Miraculous & Mundane | Manbites Dog Theatre

Projector Technician for No Less than the Trees and Stars | Swain Studio Six

Technical Support for The Future | UNC Process Series

Actor & Projector Technician for Utopia Machine | Swain Studio Six

Projection/Video/Sound Designer for The Talk | Swain Studio Six

Actor in A # @ the Door | Swain Studio Six

Projection Designer/Technician for Un-becoming Ailey | UNC Process Series

Graphic Designer 2018-2019 Season | Kenan Theatre Company

Sound/Projection Designer for OUR PLACE | Company Carolina

Technical Director for A Narcissus' Delight | Mckenzie Wilson

Animator for SUMMER INTERRUPTED | Trevy McDonald

---2019---

Video/Projection Designer for The Talk (2019) | StreetSigns Center

Actor/Dancer & Sound/Video Designer for Tiny Luxuries | UNC Process Series

Winner at the Swain Lot Film Festival for That's Hot

Associate Video/Projection Designer for Your Healing is Killing Me | Playmakers Repertory Company

VJ/Video Programs Designer for NextNow Fest 2019: Silent Disc-Glo | The Clarice

Video/Projection Designer for Black Madonna & Miss America | The Clarice

Assistant Projections Designer for White Pearl | Studio Theatre

Video Programs Designer for Peter Pan & Wendy | Shakespeare Theatre

---2020---

Video Designer for Artistic Residency | John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

Projector Supervisor for Miss You Like Hell | Olney Theatre Center

Teaching Artist at Digital Renaissance Project | Andy’s Summer Playhouse

Virtual Media Programmer for The Laramie Project | Brandeis University

Projection/Video Design for CRASH TEST | The Clarice

Assistant Projection Design & Programmer for Ghost Bride | The Clarice
Assistant Projection Design & Programmer for Responsive Wild | The Clarice

---2021---

Web Designer for RESET | Woolly Mammoth
Video Editor for The Space Between Us
Media Designer for The Revolutionists | The Clarice

VFX Assistant for QUADRANT SERIES | Theatre Alliance

Projections Mentor For TDPS Spring Dance Concert

Projection Designer for The Floor and Four Corners | Megan McDevitt

Projection Designer for Fabulosity | Gabrielle Mata

Media Designer for The Real James Bond... Was Dominican | GEVA Theatre

Projection Designer | OVERSCORE | The Clarice

Associate Projection Designer | The Burn | Montgomery College

Associate Projection Designer | Dreamgirls | Baltimore Centerstage

Assistant Projection Designer | Man Covets Bird | Spooky Action Theater

Video Editor for RECOVERING

---2022---

Projections Consultant | Karski | The Davis Center

Upcoming
Associate Projection Designer | Fires in the Mirror | Theatre J

Projection Designer | Dr.Wonderful & Her Dog | Keegan Theatre

Projection Designer | Rent | Artscentric

If you have any questions feel free to send me a message!

Thank you!