Jean E. Taylor
Artist biography

Jean has been a teaching artist for Lincoln Center for over 25 years, working extensively with Lincoln Center Education’s (LCE) Teaching Artist Faculty, the Teaching Artist Development Labs, local school districts, 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 Culture Center, and the Teaching Artist Guild are the US Hub for ITAC joining a global network for change.  

Jean teaches Theatrical Clown and Accepting the Ridiculous for The New School College of Performing Arts BFA and MFA programs and has taught Theatrical Clown for The Barrow Group Theatre for over 20 years. As a performer, Jean is developing a series 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 honour the concept of distributed wisdom.