Birthdate: Mar 12, 1975
Birthplace: Fredonia, New York, USA
Acting in TV series and shorts and then, in 2000, co-founding and producing plays at the Los Angeles-based theater company, SpyAnts, Lori Evans Taylor ultimately shifted to screenwriting, specializing in the horror-thriller genre. Taylor wrote, produced, and directed her feature debut, the Hitchcockian horror-thriller Bed Rest (2022), with Melissa Barrera, Guy Burnet, Paul Essiembre, and Kristen Harris. Taylor’s screenplay (co-written by Gary Busick) for the sixth entry in the Final Destination series, is to be directed by Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts.
Born in Fredonia, New York, Lori Evans Taylor moved with her family to North Carolina. Taylor majored in theater at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Taylor married screenwriter David Coggeshall in 2007. The couple has two children.
Nominee, Outstanding Special Class Series, Daytime Emmy Awards (2019).
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Athlete: Lori Evans Taylor won New York State’s balance beam championship in a state gymnastics championship round.