Yana Taylor co-created the production of Prince Bettliegend in Sydney, Australia and played the role of Hocus/Pocus.

Gender	Female
Nationality	Australia

Prince Bettliegend, based on underlying research by PtJA co-investigator Lisa Peschel, was created from the archival fragments of a performance that took place in the Terezín / Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1943.

Yana Taylor is a performance-maker, performer and researcher. As a dramaturg, Yana worked with directors, Roslyn Oades on Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday and Ros Horin on Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe. Yana performed in site-specific works – Dwelling (Big West Fest/Jess Wilson) & The Last Highway (Sydney Fest/ UTP). As a core artist in version 1.0 Inc ensemble (1999-2014), Yana directed & performed The Disappearances Project; was performer-deviser in The Table of Knowledge, Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue and The Second Last Supper; deviser/production dramaturg on this kind of ruckus, The Wages of Spin and A Certain Maritime Incident. Yana appreciates USyd Performance Studies Centre’s support for independent artists. Her last project in the centre was a creative lab residency, ‘7arakat’, on devising works derived from transcripts & documents with Palestinian artists from the Occupied Territories, Aida refugee camp and disapora artists in Australia & abroad. Yana completed her PhD at University of Sydney (2007) & has lectured at UWS/Nepean, AFTRS, Monash, Wollongong, Macquarie and Flinders.