Taylor Louderman | |
---|---|
Born | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Education | University of Michigan The New School (BS) |
Occupations |
|
Years active | 2011–present |
Spouse | Brooks Toth (m. 2020) |
Children | 2 [1] |
Website | taylizlou |
Taylor Louderman is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is best known for originating the role of Regina George in the Broadway musical Mean Girls , for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2018.
Louderman was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and then raised in Bourbon, Missouri, a small town 60 miles southwest of St. Louis, Missouri. She is the eldest daughter of Roger and Suzanne Louderman and has four sisters, Hannah, Olivia, Morgan, and Madison.[ citation needed ]
In 2001, at the age of 10, she was cast in the title role of Annie at Ozark Actors Theatre in Rolla, Missouri. [2] [3]
She graduated from Sullivan High School and then attended the University of Michigan for two years before leaving the program to star as Campbell in the touring production of Bring It On: The Musical . [4] [5] In 2020, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Arts from The New School. [6]
After her sophomore year at the University of Michigan, Louderman appeared as Margot in 2011 production of Legally Blonde at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri. [7] It was during this time she learned she had been cast as the lead role of Campbell in the touring production of Bring It On: The Musical . [8] After its national tour, the show then transferred to Broadway in 2012 with Louderman, making her Broadway debut. [9]
Louderman then appeared as Wendy Darling in NBC's 2014 live production of the musical Peter Pan Live!. [10]
She was next seen on Broadway in January 2017, taking over the role of Lauren in Kinky Boots. [11]
Louderman starred as Regina George in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, Mean Girls , written by Tina Fey with music and lyrics by Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin, respectively. [12] [13] [14] The show had its world premiere as an out-of-town tryout at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., from October 31, 2017, to December 3, 2017, in which Louderman originated the role of Regina George. [14] [15] The musical, which is based on the film of the same name, began previews on March 12, 2018, and officially opened on Broadway on April 8, 2018, at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. [16] She received nominations for numerous awards for this role, including nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the Drama League Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award. [12] [17] [18] Louderman announced via her Instagram that she would be departing Mean Girls on September 8, 2019. [19]
In March 2019, it was reported that Louderman landed a leading role in a new CBS show, The Emperor of Malibu. [20]
As part of The Muny's 101st season, Louderman reprised her role as Lauren in Kinky Boots in June 2019. [21] Calvin Wilson, writing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, wrote of her performance: "...In a role that’s too small for her talent, Louderman is a sheer delight." [22]
In July 2019, Louderman announced via her Instagram that, following the conclusion of her current projects, she would be taking a hiatus from performing to focus on writing, teaching, and producing. Posting on July 12, she captioned a photo of herself as Regina George with: "...I have to be honest..though I ask for forgiveness for expressing this if it’s not what you want to hear...I am ready. I am sad being in these shoes most days...still very grateful, but to the younger version of myself who dreamt this all up, I love you, please forgive me and thank you." [23]
In February 2021, Louderman joined the cast of the NBC sitcom Kenan , playing the role of Tami Greenlake. [24]
On December 24, 2019, Louderman was engaged to her boyfriend, Brooks Toth. [25] On June 15, 2020, she announced on her Instagram account that she and Toth were married at Jupiter Lighthouse Park in Florida. [26] Louderman announced in August 2022 that she and Toth would be expecting their first child to arrive later that year. [27] [28] She gave birth to a son in early 2023. [29] [30]
Year | Title | Role | Theatre | Director(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | Annie | Annie | Ozark Actors Theatre | ||
2008 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Ensemble | The Robert G. Reim Theatre | Stephen Bourneuf | |
2009 | Disney's Alice in Wonderland | Rose | Ben Nordstrom | ||
2010 | Beauty and the Beast | Ensemble | The Muny | Matt Lenz | |
Footloose | Ensemble | Paul Blake | |||
Aida | Amneris | Power Center for the Performing Arts | Richard Grasso | ||
2011 | Legally Blonde | Margot | The Muny | Marc Bruni | |
Bring It On: The Musical | Campbell Davis | Andy Blankenbuehler | |||
U.S. National Tour | |||||
2012 | St. James Theatre | ||||
2013 | Footloose | Ariel Moore | Kansas City Starlight Theatre | Mark Madama | |
2014 | Grease | Sandy Dumbrowski | Paper Mill Playhouse | Daniel Goldstein | |
The Muny | Michael Horsley | ||||
2015 | Hairspray | Amber Von Tussle | Dan Knechtges | ||
Gigantic | Ashley Penrod | Vineyard Theatre | Scott Schwartz | ||
2016 | Aida | Amneris | The Muny | Matt Lenz | |
Ride the Cyclone | Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg (left the production during previews citing 'creative differences') | Lucille Lortel Theatre | Rachel Rockwell | ||
2017 | Kinky Boots | Lauren(replacement) | Al Hirschfeld Theatre | Jerry Mitchell | |
Mean Girls | Regina George | National Theatre (out-of-town tryout) | Casey Nicholaw | ||
2018–19 | August Wilson Theatre | ||||
2019 | Kinky Boots | Lauren | The Muny | D.B. Bonds | |
2023 | Chess | Svetlana Sergievsky | Josh Rhodes |
• Credits in bold indicate Broadway production(s)
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Shadowland | Obnoxious Girl #1 | ||
2014 | Life of an Actress: The Musical | Jen |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Peter Pan Live! | Wendy Darling | Live television movie | |
2016 | High Maintenance | Alexa | Episode: "Meth(od)" | |
2017–18 | Sunny Day | Blair (voice) | 13 episodes | |
2018 | The Good Fight | Tara Strokes | Episode: "Day 492" | |
Saturday Night Live | Herself (uncredited) | Episode: "Tina Fey" | ||
2019 | The Emperor of Malibu | Kate | Main role, 1 episode | |
The Loudest Voice | Carrie | Episode: “2015” | ||
Evil | Malindaz | Episode: “7 Swans a Singin’” | ||
2020 | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts | Carton (voice) | Episode: "Twin Beaks" | |
2021-22 | Kenan | Tami Greenlake | Recurring (Season 1) Main role (Season 2) |
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | The Fred & Adele Astaire Awards | Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show | Bring It On | Nominated | |
2018 | Tony Award | Best Actress in a Musical | Mean Girls | Nominated | |
Drama League Award | Distinguished Performance | Nominated | |||
Outer Critics Circle Award | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Nominated | |||
Broadway.com Audience Awards | Favorite Diva Performance | Won |
Georgia Bright Engel was an American actress. She is best known for having played Georgette Franklin Baxter in the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1972 to 1977, Pat MacDougall on Everybody Loves Raymond from 2003 to 2005, and Mamie Sue on Hot in Cleveland from 2012 to 2015. She was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards and a BAFTA award.
Carolee Carmello is an American actress best known for her performances in Broadway musicals and for playing the role of Maple LaMarsh on the television series Remember WENN (1996–1998). She is a three-time Tony Award nominee and a five-time Drama Desk nominee, winning the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for her role in Parade.
Laura Michelle Kelly is an English actress and singer, best known for originating the roles of Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins in the West End, for which she received the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland on Broadway.
Stephanie Janette Block is an American actress and singer, best known for her work on the Broadway stage.
Kerry Butler is an American actress and singer known primarily for her work in theater. She is best known for originating the roles of Barbara Maitland in Beetlejuice, Penny Pingleton in Hairspray, and Clio/Kira in Xanadu, the latter of which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical.
Ann Harada is an American actress and singer who was first known for the musical Avenue Q, in which she originated the role of Christmas Eve, the heavily accented Japanese therapist.
Julia Kathleen Murney is an American actress and singer, also known for television commercial voice-overs. Until 2005, she was commonly known as the Broadway actress who had technically never appeared on Broadway. This was because her fame came mostly from her performances on the Broadway charity circuit, and not traditional Broadway productions. She played the role of Elphaba in the musical Wicked, both on the US national tour (2006) and on Broadway (2007). She is also a two-time Drama Desk Award nominee, for The Wild Party (2000) and Falling (2013).
Emily Skinner, also known as Emily Scott Skinner, is a Tony-nominated American actress and singer. She has played leading roles in 11 Broadway productions including New York, New York, Prince of Broadway, The Cher Show, Side Show, Jekyll & Hyde, James Joyce's The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight, Billy Elliot, as well as the Actor's Fund Broadway concerts of Dreamgirls and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She has sung on concert stages around the world and on numerous recordings.
Lisa Brescia is an American musical theatre actress who has performed as lead and understudy in several Broadway shows. Raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she went on to pursue acting and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She taught Acting I and IV at Missouri State University and is now set to be the head of the Musical Theatre department at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
Ashley Marie Spencer is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Spencer was a contestant on the 2007 NBC show Grease: You're the One that I Want! She was the understudy for Barbie in the Barbie in Fairytopia tour, in which she sang and danced ballet.
Carmen Cusack is an American musical theater actress and singer. She is known for playing Elphaba in the Chicago, North American Tour, and Melbourne productions of the musical Wicked and for originating the roles of Alice Murphy and Clare Boothe Luce in the Broadway musicals Bright Star and Flying Over Sunset, respectively.
Kinky Boots is a musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and book by Harvey Fierstein.
Rob McClure is an American actor and singer, best known for his work on the Broadway stage.
Barrett Wilbert Weed is an American actress and singer. She is best known for originating the roles of Veronica Sawyer in the Off-Broadway production of Heathers: The Musical and Janis Sarkisian in the Broadway production of Mean Girls. She also voices Octavia "Via" Goetia in Helluva Boss.
Mean Girls is a rock musical with a book by Tina Fey, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, and music by Jeff Richmond. It is based on the 2004 film by Mark Waters, which was also written by Fey and was in turn inspired by Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes. The musical focuses on Cady Heron, a teenage girl who transfers to a public high school after being homeschooled her whole life in Africa. At school, she befriends outsiders Janis Sarkasian and Damian Hubbard who persuade her to infiltrate the "Plastics", a clique consisting of wealthy but insecure Gretchen Wieners, sweet but dimwitted Karen Smith, and "queen bee" Regina George.
Jennifer Simard is an American actress known primarily for her work in theater. A two-time Tony Award nominee, she rose to prominence with roles in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in the 2000s, such as I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, The Thing About Men and Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit, nominated for the Drama Desk Award and Lucille Lortel Award.
Erika Leigh Henningsen is an American actress, singer and voice actress. She is best known for her work on Broadway and for originating the role of Cady Heron in the 2018 Tony-nominated musical Mean Girls, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. Since 2024, she has voiced Charlie Morningstar in the adult animated series Hazbin Hotel.
Ashley Jeein Park is an American actress and musician. She is best known for her portrayal of Mindy Chen on the Netflix comedy series Emily in Paris. She originated the role of Gretchen Wieners in the Broadway musical Mean Girls, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical.
Kate Rockwell is an American actor, dancer, and singer. She is known for her work on Broadway and for originating the roles of Skylar in Bring It On: The Musical in 2011 and of Karen Smith in the 2018 musical Mean Girls, for the latter of which she received Drama Desk Award and Helen Hayes Award nominations.
Kyle Andrew Selig is an American actor, dancer, and singer. He is known for originating the role of Aaron Samuels in the 2018 Tony Award-nominated musical, Mean Girls and for playing the role of Mr. Komos in Monster High: The Movie. Selig made his Broadway debut as Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, and in 2024, he took over the starring role of Jacob Jankowski in Water for Elephants on Broadway.