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GET GREAT BRANSON DEALS sent directly to your phone! Text BRANSON to 82928 Message and data rates may apply. Text STOP to cancel. Go to taponitdeals.com/terms for privacy and terms. APRIL 12-18, 2020 WHAT'S UP! 5 BECCA MARTIN-BROWN NWA Democrat-Gazette A ctors were wrapping up the February production of "Into the Woods" at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, and they wanted to give director Julie Gabel something to remember them by. Having learned that Taylor Dolan — the actress playing Cinderella's Stepmother — was also an artist, they asked her to do a little sketch. What they got was a full-blown piece of art, and that says almost everything there is to say about Dolan, a newcomer to Northwest Arkansas. There is no halfway with her, and at 29, she's already done more than many people twice her age, including releasing the first in her children's book series, "Ghoul Scouts," on Feb. 2 and embarking on a book signing tour of the United Kingdom just after "Into the Woods" closed. Dolan says it all started in Texas — and in her imagination. "I grew up in a suburb outside of Houston and had a wide array of fantasy occupations: Broadway actress, forensic anthropologist, audiobook narrator," she reminisces. "While I grew up in Texas, I have also lived in New York, Actress, author, illustrator, Taylor Dolan does it all In "Ghoul Scouts: Welcome to Camp Croak," heroine Lexie Wilde was supposed to be going to the Happy Hollow Scout Camp for Joyful Boys and Girls for the summer, but instead, she finds herself making friends with a werewolf, a skeleton, "a fancy schmancy zombie" and a baseball-hat-wearing ghost. (Courtesy Images) COVER STORY Good Ghoul Taylor Dolan says she found her people when she studied children's book illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in England. (Courtesy Photo) France, Scotland and England. Northwest Arkansas just happened to be my next stop after both my parents moved to Fayetteville. "I didn't formally pick up art until my undergraduate degree, [but] I took my first acting class when I was 7 and obsessively listened to 'Rabbit Ears Radio,' a folklore storytelling radio program, before that. Honestly, I needed all my loves to make 'Ghoul Scouts' come together. I see bookmaking as a form of flattened theater. As the author and the illustrator, I have the joy of See Dolan Page 39