Jerry R. Taylor Department of Performing Arts Professor At IU Northwest since 1981 Retired 2011 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS CREATIVE ACTIVITY: SELECTED PERFORMANCES/DESIGNS Theatre Northwest-Indiana University Northwest Death of a Salesman Director October 2008 Charlotte s Web Director April, 2008 On the Verge Director October 2007 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Director April 2007 The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)" Director- October 2004 The Wind in the Willows Director April 2004 You re A Good Man Charlie Brown Director June 2004 Veronica s Room Director October 2003 True West Director November 2003 "University" Director - February 2003 "The Mystery of Irma Vep" Director - November 2002 "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds" Director - October 2002 "Phantom" Director - June 2002 "Cinderella" Script Adaptation, Director - April 2002 "The Doctor In Spite of Himself" Director - November 2001 "The Elephant Man" Director - October 2001 "Over Here" Director - June 2001
"Alice In Wonderland" Director - April 2001 "A Lie Of The Mind" Director - November 2000 "Blithe Spirit" Director - October 2000 "The Goodbye Girl" Director - June 2000 "James and The Giant Peach" Director - April 2000 "Lend Me A Tenor" Director - October 1999 "Kiss Me Kate" Director - June 1999 "The Jungle Book" Director - April 1999 "The Hot L Baltimore" Director - February 1999 "Light Up The Sky" Director - October 1998 "Personals" Director - June 1998 "The Princess and the Pea" Script Adaptation, Director - April 1998 "Tartuffe" Director - October 1997 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" Director - June 1997 "The Velveteen Rabbit" Director - April 1997 "All My Sons" Director - November 1996 - Kennedy Center ACTF Meritorious Achievement Award "Spoon River Anthology" Director - October 1996 "Prelude To A Kiss" Director - June 1996 "Charlotte's Web" Director - April 1996 "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" Director - February 1996 "Marvin's Room" Director - November 1995 "Murderer" Director - October 1995 "Rumpelstiltskin" Director - April 1995 "The Shadow Box" Director - February 1995
"Ivy Covered Walls" Director - November 1994 "The All Night Strut" Director - October 1994 "A My Name Is Alice" Director - June 1994 "Treasure Island" Director - April 1994 "Scrooge" Director - November 1993 "The 1940's Radio Hour" Director - October 1993 "Dames At Sea" Director - June 1993 "Beauty and the Beast" Director - April 1993 "Alone, Yet Together" Director - February 1993 "Look Homeward, Angel" Director - November 1992 "They're Playing Our Song" Director - October 1992 "Little Shop of Horrors" Director - June 1992 "Robin Hood" Scenery & Lighting Designer - April 1992 "IUN Dance Ensemble Concert" Scenery & Lighting Designer - February 1992 "Crimes of the Heart" Director, Lighting Designer - November 1991 "Working" Director, Scenery & Lighting Designer - October 1991 "Gypsy" Director - June 1991 "Huck Finn" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design - April 1991 "IUN Dance Ensemble" Lighting Design - February 1991 "T.G. Engel, Classical Guitarist" Lighting Design - January 1991 "Biloxi Blues" Director, Lighting Design - November 1990 "A Midsummer's Night Dream" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design, October 1990 "42 nd Street" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design - June 1990 "Cinderella" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design - April 1990
"The IUN Dance Ensemble" Scenery & Lighting Design - February 1990 "The Lion In Winter" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design - February 1990 "IU Northwest Singers" Lighting Design - December 1989 "Babes in Toyland" November 1989 "Arsenic & Old Lace" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director October 1989 "Anything Goes" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - June 1989 "IUN Dance Ensemble" Lighting Design - April 1989 "John Mattern, Cellest" Lighting Design - April 1989 "Aladdin" Director, Director, Lighting Design - March 1989 "Stephen Miller, Guitarist" Lighting Design - February 1989 "And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson" Scenery & Lighting Design - January 1989 "IU Northwest Singers" Lighting Design - December 1988 "Dark Of The Moon" Scenery & Lighting Design - November 1988 "Brighton Beach Memoirs" Director, Lighting Design - October 1988 "Pippin" Scene Design - June 1988 "Dance Concert" Lighting Design - April 1988 "Rada Pharaoh of Egypt" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - April 1988 "Garry Grice" Lighting Design - March 1988 "Art Hodes" Lighting Design - February 1988 "Dark of the Moon" Scenery & Lighting Design - November 1987 "You Can't Take It With You" Scenery & Lighting Design - October 1987 "Cole" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - June 1987 "Dance Concert" Lighting Design - April 1987 "Music Concert" Lighting Design - March 1987
"The Three Golden Hairs" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - March 1987 "The Star Spangled Girl" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - February 1987 "Northwest Indiana Symphony's Great Lakes Brass" Lighting Design - February 1987 "The Runner Stumbles" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - November 1986 "Rain" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - October 1986 "The Wiz" Scenery & Lighting Design - June 1986 "Dance Concert" Lighting Design - April 1986 "Zazafeeno, The Jester" Director, Technical Director - March 1986 "Music Concert" Lighting Design - March 1986 "Music Concert" Lighting Design - February 1986 "You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running" Technical Director - January 1986 "IU Singers" Lighting Design - December 1985 "Children's Traveling Production" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - December 1985 "Doctor In Spite of Himself" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - November 1985 "Equus" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - October 1985 "Mame" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - June 1985 "Abdul And The Ruby of Zenda" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - March 1985 "Vanities" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - February 1985 "Music Concert" Lighting Design - December 1984 "What The Butler Saw" Technical Director - November 1984 "Medea" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - October 1984 "Finnian's Rainbow" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - June 1984 "Scarface, The Indian Boy Fantasy" Director, Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - March 1984 "Of Mice and Men" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - January 1984
"Four One Act Plays of Moliere" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - November 1983 "Tribute" Acting, Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - October 1983 "Hello Dolly" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - June 1983 "Dance Concert" Lighting Design - April 1983 " The Trials of Topo" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - March 1983 "Six Characters In Search of An Author" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - January 1983 "Music/Dance Concert" Lighting Design - December 1982 "The Calamus Trail" Playwright, Director, Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director November/December 1982 "Waiting for Godot" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - November 1982 "The Drunkard" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - October 1982 "Pippin" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - June 1982 "Dance Concert" Lighting Design - May 1982 "The Sleeping Beauty" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - February/March 1982 "Philadelphia Story" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - February 1982 "Chester String Quartet" Lighting Design - January 1982 "Music Concert" Lighting Design - December 1981 "Gallows Humor" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - November 1981 "Rain" Scenery & Lighting Design, Technical Director - October 1981 The Univeristy Theatre-Ball State University-Muncie, IN "Little Mary Sunshine" Technical Director - July 1975 "6 Rms Riv Vu" Technical Director - July 1975 "Dial "M" For Murder" Technical Director - July 1975 "A Thurber Carnival" Technical Director - July 1975 "Fiddler on the Roof" Technical Director - July 1975
"Peter Gynt" (Children's Play) Technical Director - April 1975 "The Miser" Technical Director - April 1975 "Man From La Mancha" Director - February 1975 "The Birds" Technical Director - January 1975 "The Merchant of Venice" Technical Director - October 1974 "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad" Technical Director - October 1974 "Once Upon A Mattress" Technical Director - August 1974 "Here Lies Jeremy Troy" Technical Director - July 1974 "Our Town" Technical Director - July 1974 "Arsenic and Old Lace" Technical Director - July 1974 "The Tempest" Technical Director - July 1974 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" Director, Technical Director - April 1974 "Othello" Technical Director - March 1974 "She Stoops to Conquer" Technical Director - January 1974 "The Skin of Our Teeth" Scene Designer - December 1974 "Private Lives" Technical Director - October 1973 "Celebration" Technical Director - August 1973 "The House of Blue Leaves" Director - July 1973 "The Importance of Being Earnest" Technical Director - July 1973 "Twelfth Night" Scene Designer - July 1973 "Canterbury Tales" Technical Director - July 1973 New York University Gulf-Life Corporation Grant Fountains Abbey, England
"The Wakefield Cycle Plays", Actor - June 1979 Berry College Theatre-Berry College -Mt. Berry, GA "The Glass Menagerie" Scene Design - October 1980 "Anything Goes" Scene Design - March 1979 "California Suite" Scene Design - January 1979 "Charlie Brown" Scene Design - November 1978 "Look Homeward Angel" Scene Design - October 1978 - Kennedy Center ACTF Regional Alternate Award "The Merry Widow" Scene Design - April 1978 "The Taming of the Shrew" Scene Design - February 1978 "Equus" Scene Design - October 1977 - Kennedy Center ACTF Regional Award "The Miracle Worker" Scene Design - October 1977 "The Runner Stumbles" Director - March 1977 "Twelfth Night" Scene Design - October 1976 "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds" Scene Design - October 1976 "Celebration" Director - March 1976 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" Scene Design - January 1976 "A Salute to the American Theatre" Scene Design - November 1975 "The Crucible" Scene Design - October 1975 Teatro Renascence-Rome City Auditorium-Rome, Georgia "The Shadow Box" Actor, Director, Scenery Designer, Technical Director - February 1981 Revised: 03/07/09