Margaret Ford-Taylor is a playwright, director, author, actress,
teacher and arts administrator . She has received many awards,
commendations and honors, including the Kennedy Center scriptwriting
competition for "Don't Rock the Boat", and two Emmy nominations. The
first was for her performance in the public television production,
"American Women: Echoes and Dreams", and her second Emmy nomination
was as writer of the ABC television documentary, "The Second
Reconstruction". Ms. Ford Taylor has been an instructor on the history
of theater and acting at Cleveland State University, the University of
Akron and Kent State University. She holds an MA from Kent State
University.In addition to industrials, radio voiceovers and television
commercials, Ms. Ford Taylor portrayed Aunt Eda in the Denzel
Washington directed movie, Antwone Fisher, and played Mother Taylor in
the Cleveland Play House production, Forest City. Commissions as a
playwright include Ned’s Garden, which was on the roster at
Cleveland State University, the Paul Robeson Theatre in Buffalo, New
York and the West Angeles Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles; Oh,
Mary, Don’t You Weep, simultaneously performed at the West Angeles
Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles and Cleveland State’s Factory
Theatre; Just Beyond the Junkyard, which toured nationally by the
Tales and Scales classical music company of Evansville, Indiana with
venues including the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City,
the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida and the Aspen
Music School Festival in Aspen, Colorado.Early directing credits for
Ms. Ford-Taylor include "Five On the Black Hand Side", "What The
Butler Saw", and "Livin Fat", with James Pickens, Jr., for which she
received the OCTA Award of Excellence. Ford-Taylor's first two one-act
plays, "Hotel Happiness" and "I Want to Fly", earned her a fellowship
to study arts administration at Harvard University.Her most recent
writing/directing assignments include "A Raisin In the Sun" for the
Beck Center, "A Song For Coretta" for the Ensemble Theatre, the
musicals "Listen To The Children" for the Foluke Theatre, "Double
Nickel Blues", which premiered at Cleveland State University’s
Factory Theatre and a debut novel, "On Liberty Street".
teacher and arts administrator . She has received many awards,
commendations and honors, including the Kennedy Center scriptwriting
competition for "Don't Rock the Boat", and two Emmy nominations. The
first was for her performance in the public television production,
"American Women: Echoes and Dreams", and her second Emmy nomination
was as writer of the ABC television documentary, "The Second
Reconstruction". Ms. Ford Taylor has been an instructor on the history
of theater and acting at Cleveland State University, the University of
Akron and Kent State University. She holds an MA from Kent State
University.In addition to industrials, radio voiceovers and television
commercials, Ms. Ford Taylor portrayed Aunt Eda in the Denzel
Washington directed movie, Antwone Fisher, and played Mother Taylor in
the Cleveland Play House production, Forest City. Commissions as a
playwright include Ned’s Garden, which was on the roster at
Cleveland State University, the Paul Robeson Theatre in Buffalo, New
York and the West Angeles Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles; Oh,
Mary, Don’t You Weep, simultaneously performed at the West Angeles
Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles and Cleveland State’s Factory
Theatre; Just Beyond the Junkyard, which toured nationally by the
Tales and Scales classical music company of Evansville, Indiana with
venues including the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City,
the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida and the Aspen
Music School Festival in Aspen, Colorado.Early directing credits for
Ms. Ford-Taylor include "Five On the Black Hand Side", "What The
Butler Saw", and "Livin Fat", with James Pickens, Jr., for which she
received the OCTA Award of Excellence. Ford-Taylor's first two one-act
plays, "Hotel Happiness" and "I Want to Fly", earned her a fellowship
to study arts administration at Harvard University.Her most recent
writing/directing assignments include "A Raisin In the Sun" for the
Beck Center, "A Song For Coretta" for the Ensemble Theatre, the
musicals "Listen To The Children" for the Foluke Theatre, "Double
Nickel Blues", which premiered at Cleveland State University’s
Factory Theatre and a debut novel, "On Liberty Street".
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