Taber is a founding member of Division 13 Productions
and has served as their managing director for 8 years.
Performance credits with D13 include: Opener in Cascando,
W in Rockaby, and W1 in Play (all by Samuel Beckett)
Lady Duncan/Lady Macbett/Witch #1 in Macbett, Tiresias
in BLOOD LINE: the Oedipus/Antigone Story, the
Bishop's Girl (Rosine) in The Balcony and Joan (Jean) in Ionesco's Journeys Among the Dead, which Settle adapted for her. Other New York credits include Helen in Michael McClures' VKTMS: Orestes in Scenes (Verse Theater Manhattan), Jean in Ionesco's Rhinoceros, the Trojan Women at The Juilliard School (invited guest artist). Film credits
include Siam in Siam's Light (Bucktown Pictures)
and Mary in Division 13's Night, Night, among other projects. Taber co-created
Division 13's inaugural production The Precipice
and co-adapted (with Joanna Settle) Marguerite Duras'
The War. Taber adapted and director D13's acclaimed
premiere of The Mustache based on the novel by Emmanuel
Carrère. Taber is a graduate of Hampshire
College, studied at the American Conservatory Theatre,
and is a member of the Lincoln Center Director's
Lab.
Prior to founding Division
13 Productions in 1995, Taber's studies included
acting, dance, playwriting, directing, theatre management,
and video production. In addition to her theatre
training, Taber pursued an intensive course of study
on the causes, symptoms, and repercussion of severe
mental illness, particularly schizophrenia. 1994,
Taber wrote and performed the lead role in Variations,
an original play about the effects of schizophrenia
on the immediate family. Variations received a Threshold
Award for continued development.