As a student at New York University, Taylor wrote and directed his thesis film,
The Lady in Waiting in 1992, which won the gold medal for Best Dramatic Film at the
Student Academy Awards and went on to be nominated for the
Academy Award for
Best Live-Action Short Film. Taylor was integral to the development and filming of the pilot of the
HBO drama
Six Feet Under in 2001, and went on to be a writer-producer on the show and received an
Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in 2002. Taylor's script for the season 2 episode, “In Place of Anger,” was nominated for a
Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award in 2003. He co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the 2002 independent Mockumentary film,
Showboy, which won the Douglas Hickox Award for best directorial debut at the
British Independent Film Awards and was named Best Picture at the
Milan International Film Festival. In 2003, Taylor became a writer and producer on ABC's dramatic series
Miracles, before beginning work on the first season of the network's breakout hit,
Lost. As there was no pilot shot, Taylor was one of only four writers brought on to brainstorm and develop what the show would eventually be. As a writer and supervising producer on
Lost, Taylor won the 2006
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series. In 2008, he co-created Fox's sci-fi crime drama
New Amsterdam. He went on to become the head writer on
Lucasfilm’s animated series,
Star Wars: The Clone Wars writing episodes for the show’s third, fourth, and fifth seasons and received a 2015
Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program. Taylor’s relationship with
MTV began with the 2009 release of the horror miniseries,
Valemont, which he wrote and co-directed. He returned to MTV as a writer, director, and co-executive producer on
Teen Wolf during the show's second, third, and fourth seasons directing the fan-favorite episode called Motel California. '' Press Junket Panel In 2014, Taylor developed and was showrunner and Executive producer of the MTV drama-thriller series
Eye Candy, starring
Victoria Justice. Production began in
New York City in September 2014, with
Jax Media and the ten-episode first season was released in January 2015. The hugely popular show was canceled after MTV decided to stop producing or programing live action TV. He was co-executive producer and writer on the
Marvel series
Luke Cage, which was released in 2018. He was asked to return to
Lucasfilm and wrote two episodes of
The Bad Batch in its first season. '' set with
Tyler Posey and
Dylan O'Brien Taylor was a co-executive producer for the critically acclaimed
SYFY series
Resident Alien, which received awards for Best Cable Series and Best Comedy from the
Hollywood Critics Association during its first season. == Filmography ==