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Taylor Trensch

American actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7690167
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Taylor Hunt Trensch (born May 3, 1989) is an American stage and film actor.

Early life and education

Trensch was born in Tampa, Florida.

He attended Howard W. Blake High School where he studied theatre under Eric Davis, James Rayfield, and Jennie Eisenhower. During his senior year, Trensch was awarded a college scholarship from the Florida State Thespian Society. Trensch graduated in 2007.

He was then accepted to Elon University's musical theatre program and attended for two years.

Career

In the summer of 2008 Trensch joined the acting company at the Lake Dillon Theatre in Silverthorne, Colorado. He performed The Rocky Horror Show, Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, Cabaret, and Rabbit Hole in repertory.

In 2009, during his second year at Elon University, Trensch was cast as Moritz Stiefel in the first national tour of Spring Awakening. For his portrayal of Moritz, Trensch won the 2009 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actor in a National Touring Production as well as the Best Individual Performance honor from BroadwayWorld.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Taylor Trensch” as american actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2007, 2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-05-03. The account is most persuasive where Taylor, Trensch and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7690167. VIAF identifies the subject as 6199151656369608400004. The Library of Congress control number is no2018005131. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Taylor Trensch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.