Jean E Taylor Email & Phone Number

JEAN E. TAYLORDirector, Teaching Artistry ProgramLincoln Center EducationAsst Professor, New School College of Performing Arts2024Jean has been a teaching artist for Lincoln Center for over 25 years, working extensively with LCE’s teaching artist faculty, the Teaching Artist Development Labs and international consultancies. Jean is a recipient of Lincoln Center’s Directors Emeriti Award, and represented LCE at the International Teaching Artist Conferences (ITAC) in Oslo, Brisbane, Edinburgh, New York City, Seoul, and again in Oslo in 2022. LCE, along with the Maui Arts and Cultural Center, are the US Hub for ITAC joining a global network for change. Jean and teaching artist, Heather Bryce, co-facilitated a presentation on Lincoln Center’s Big Umbrella Festival at the ITAC6 Conference in Oslo in 2022, which led to the creation of the Global Working Group on Accessibility. The Big Umbrella events offer multi-sensory experiences, performances, installations, and workshops specifically welcoming neurodivergent audiences and their families to the campus.Jean teaches Theatrical Clown and Accepting the Ridiculous for The New School College of Performing Arts BFA and MFA programs and teaches Theatrical Clown/A Level of Theatre for The Barrow Group’s Actor Training program. As a performer, Jean is developing a series of clownesque pieces entitled Great Small Moments and has a dream of using her vintage tractor for Movable Stories along a country road.Jean studied clown/movement with Philippe Gaulier, Ronlin Foreman, Vincent Rouche, David Shiner and Merry Conway, among others. Her approach to theatrical clown has been published in Movement for Actors, Allworth Press. She is a board member for The Maxine Greene Institute for Aesthetic Education and Social Imagination, serves on the Leadership Committee for ITAC, the National Advisory Committee for the Teaching Artist Guild and served as a consultant for Juilliard’s Global K-12 program. Most recently, Jean piloted an Intergenerational Co-Mentoring project, with co-mentor Zoey Peacock Jones, they celebrate being experts and newcomers simultaneously and honor the concept of distributed wisdom.