Taylor Carlson was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1994. She attended the Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, where she received an English award. It was in high school Taylor began to pursue acting, abandoning almost all sports to take part in the school's theatre program. She started attending Hampshire College in 2013 in pursuit of a degree in Theatre. She has starred in many voice over projects, theatre productions, and radio plays, and has also lent her help as a director, writer, and stage manager to the art she has such a passion for.