Education:
BS, West Virginia State College
MA, Ball State University

Professional Activities:
Professor Taylor is completing his twenty-third year on the theatre faculty of Indiana University Northwest, and is Chairman of the Performing Arts Department.  Prior to coming to IUN, he served on the faculties of Ball State University in Muncie and Berry College in Georgia.  Jerry has directed and / or designed nearly two hundred and fifty college / university productions.  Among his directing credits are, "Man of LaMancha",  "A Midsummer Night ës Dream", "Brighton Beach Memoirs", "Look Homeward, Angel", "Tartuffe", "All My Sons", "The Lion in Winter", "42nd Street", and "Biloxi Blues". Professionally, he has acted numerous roles ranging from the psychiatrist in "The Shadow Box" to Algernon Moncrieff in "The Importance of Being Earnest". Mr. Taylor was also the recipient of a Gulf-Life Insurance Corporation Grant to study theatre in England.  While in England, he performed the role of Christ in the Crucifixion segment of the Wakefield Cycle Plays at Fountains Abby. Honors include the selection of two productions (while at Berry College) as regional representatives to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.   He also received a Kennedy Center Festival Award of Merit for his direction of "All My Sons" at Theatre Northwest in 1997.  Professor Taylor holds a B.S. from West Virginia State College and the M.A.  from Ball State University.  He has also done post-graduate study at New York University.