About

Stewart Taylor is a writer and performer based in Southampton, UK. He has performed for Apples and Snakes, Tongue Fu, Hip Yak Poetry Shack and the Chocolate Poetry Club. Having won local poetry slams, he won the Hammer and Tongue Oxford Open Slam in 2013 and competed in the national finals in September 2014. He has also performed at large-scale music festivals including Victorious and WOMAD.

He has been a regular player at Poetry on the Spot in Bournemouth, where poets write an perform from a prompt with twenty minutes to prepare. In 2016, he turned to the Dark Side and entered the world of Simpson and Varjack’s Anti-Slam. His alter ego, J Arthur Prufrock, became UK Anti-Slam Champion in December of that year.

In 2017, he developed the solo show Spillage taking it to the Brighton Fringe, the Lyric Theatre Bridport and Nuffield Southampton Theatres. He also created a video version for the All in the Mind Festival in 2020 which you can see here. He has since created a new show Virtually There, which has been performed as part of the Lambeth Fringe in 2025 and the Buxton Fringe in 2026.

In all of this, he draws on a background of teaching – Drama, EFL and ESOL, working as an actor in Childrens Theatre and TIE, and working with adults with learning disabilities.

You can find out where and when you can catch him next by checking out his Facebook page: StewartTaylorsWordmeatMoshpit