![]() ![]() Taylor, for her part, knew the theater needed cleanup and renovation, as well as programming. That would be a cool space to have, but somebody needs to buy it, “But we wanted a space where we could be in there all the time, and 2640 is not set up like that.” Members of the company attended a realtor’s showing at the Autograph, the very same one Taylor attended. 30, 2009).“We had been looking for a venue pretty much all last year,” BROS Managing Director Dylan Koehler says. Famed jazz musician Billy Taylor was an artistic advisor there at the time the female Taylor says their tickets were always getting mixed up.) for nine years, and thus had access to shows. ![]() (Taylor was also an usher at the Kennedy Center in D.C. Black Repertory Theatre, and more recently acted with smaller companies, including Heralds of Hope. She had been involved in theatrical pursuits for years, but always as a sideline. ![]() “This is all I ever wanted to do in my life, so I decided to go ahead and go for it,” she says. After 33 years working at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C., she decided it was time to retire and make good on a lifelong dream. Taylor, 55, is the latest to see promise in the space. “It was, like, feces and dead birds,” she says, mimicking tiptoeing through a pile of refuse. By the time Billie Taylor toured the place last year, it had been neglected for years. ![]() That year, the Paragon Theatre Company leased the space in the hopes of turning it into a venue for live theater. ![]()
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