NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Before anyone else believed a low-income elementary school in the Nashville suburb of Madison could become a place where kids stood proudly under stage lights, voices steady, lines memorized, costumes aglow, Austyn Taylor did.
Taylor, an integrated studies major with a focus in technical theatre and lighting at Middle Tennessee State University, wasn’t a teacher. He wasn’t even out of high school.
He was just 16 when he began this bold endeavor, and he continues his work as a college student…