Cameron Taylor

Cameron Taylor is a director and clown working across theatre, music, and interdisciplinary performance. He wants to break traditional boundaries, progress form and celebrate the shared truths of being human. Hunting for ideas that will impact the mean man. The human mean.

Cameron’s professional directorial debut, Kitty Litter by Hamish Johnston (2026), was critically acclaimed, extended due to demand, and is in development for a return season.
As a creator and performer, Cameron founded The Feast, under which he created and toured PISCA, earning two Greenroom Award nominations, and later developed Head in the Clouds with support from the City of Stonnington and ROOLA BOOLA.

Past performance credits include: A Christmas Carol (GWB & Old Vic), Oklahoma (Black Swan), Il Trovatore (Opera Australia), Whistleblower (The Last Great Hunt), Fly (Melbourne Lyric Opera Company), Coming Up Sondheim (Spears Entertainment).

Cameron is listed with Cirque Du Soleil as a physical actor and clown and serves as a clown swing for Infamous at Circus Joseph Ashton.

Cameron holds a BFA (Musical Theatre) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Certificate IV (Musical Theatre) from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology.

He believes great art is never safe, that sometimes the best way to challenge the world is by making it laugh – and that bios probably shouldn’t be written in the third person.

In 2018, I was in San Francisco visiting a clown friend of mine, Andrey Kislitsin. My creative practice was feeling stagnant at the time and he offered me some advice that I’ve held close ever since.

(Thick Russian accent)
“Clowns bring light to the dark. Take the hardest things you will ever have to go through and bring light to it, because if you’ve felt that, it’s likely someone else has too. Your job is to hold that”
That’s paraphrased, but it was something like that. With a few more laughs.

I started thinking about grief. The universality of that feeling. The lostness. It feels like the most abstract, unfair, unnatural feeling in the world, yet it’s one of the few things every human will go through at some point, in one of it’s many forms. When I started diving into my grief, as horrific as some of them are, I realised something quite transformative: I am made of everything I’ve been through, not just the good things. I’m still in the process of learning to love that, but I want to bring that to my audience as well.

The Birds is a meditation on grief. It’s filled with the grief of my life, but only as I believe it can serve my community.

My mantra for this piece: Bring solace to the grief of living.

– Cameron Taylor

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Please be advised there will be a five-minute lockout at the start of the show. This performance contains sudden loud noises, strobe and flashing lights, and haze and fog effects.