Jim Taylor
has been a waiter, temp worker, massage therapist, band road manager,
writer,
filmmaker, and has worked the grill at McDonald's. He was born and
raised in Albany, New York, where he worked for his first political
campaign at 8 and made his first run for the Presidency at age
16.
In 1988, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater from the Boston
University School for the Arts, and recently completed his MFA in
Screenwriting
at the University of Southern California. As a film director, his
credits
include the award-winning feature documentary Subdue
the Universe (about alternative Presidential candidates in the
1996 election), and the shorts Heimlich for Henry, and Red
Elvises.
An eclectic talent, he has also written for the San Francisco Bay
Guardian,
served as Company Dramaturg for the Beau Jest Moving Theater in Boston,
and has written, directed and starred in over fifteen theater pieces
nationwide,
including the autobiographical D-Day: The Allied Invasion of a Good
Night's Sleep.
Jim made an unsuccesful bid for President
of the United States in 2000. His latest film, Run Some
Idiot,
scheduled for release in the winter of 2000-2001, documents his trials
and tribulations as one of the hundreds of lesser-known candidates
vying
for the most powerful job in the world.Jim Taylor
has been a waiter, temp worker, massage therapist, band road manager,
writer,
filmmaker, and has worked the grill at McDonald's. He was born and
raised in Albany, New York, where he worked for his first political
campaign at 8 and made his first run for the Presidency at age
16.
In 1988, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater from the Boston
University School for the Arts, and recently completed his MFA in
Screenwriting
at the University of Southern California. As a film director, his
credits
include the award-winning feature documentary Subdue
the Universe (about alternative Presidential candidates in the
1996 election), and the shorts Heimlich for Henry, and Red
Elvises.
An eclectic talent, he has also written for the San Francisco Bay
Guardian,
served as Company Dramaturg for the Beau Jest Moving Theater in Boston,
and has written, directed and starred in over fifteen theater pieces
nationwide,
including the autobiographical D-Day: The Allied Invasion of a Good
Night's Sleep.
Jim made an unsuccesful bid for President
of the United States in 2000. His latest film, Run Some
Idiot,
scheduled for release in the winter of 2000-2001, documents his trials
and tribulations as one of the hundreds of lesser-known candidates
vying
for the most powerful job in the world.