Department of
Theater, Film, and Media Studies

Merideth M. Taylor

Professor emerita of theater and dance.
email: mmtaylor@smcm.edu
web site: http://faculty.smcm.edu/mmtaylor

Merideth M. Taylor received her B.A. from The Evergreen State College and her M.F.A. Equivalency from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She has a broad and eclectic theater and dance background as a professional performer, director, choreographer, and educator. Merideth has taught acting, directing, mask work, stage combat, period styles of movement, and modern dance technique, improvisation, history, and composition. She has also taught and practiced movement and theater education for children and has worked as a dance therapist. Merideth is a firm believer in the value of a liberal arts education and of the crucial role in education of the creative arts. She enjoys performing and occasionally appears in her own and others' productions on and off-campus. She is also an award-winning playwright.