Taylor-Made Press :: Dedicated to Promoting Culture

LISA TAYLOR BIOGRAPHY

Lisa Taylor is the owner of Taylor-Made Press, a consulting service dedicated to promoting culture. She is also the Executive Director of the Dallas Art Dealers Association.

Formerly Assistant Editor of the Dallas Times Herald and Promotions Director for Dallas Alley, Lisa Taylor brought her press relations and promotions skills to her own business in 1990.

Her clients have included the Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live literary series, for which she was the Literary Café producer, the tour producer and the marketing director, DNA Productions (the creator of the Academy Award-nominated “Jimmy Neutron” film), KERA-TV, Meadows School of the Arts, Nasher Sculpture Center, Amphibian Stage Productions, The Dallas Art Dealers Association, The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Theater Center, Undermain Theatre, Echo Theatre, WaterTower Theatre, Pan American Art Projects, and The Dallas Architecture Forum.

Since 1993, she has served on the Board of Directors of Texas Winds Musical Outreach, which uses professional musicians to perform at nursing homes, senior residences, hospitals and Head Start centers. For 14 of those years, she was Board President. She resigned after creating an endowment.

She is also the Secretary of the Board for La Reunion Artist Residency in Oak Cliff and serves on the board of the Video Association of Dallas. She also served on the Board of Directors for three years for the Texas Music Association and for six years for Dallas Children’s Theater.

She is now a Big Sister for the second time and a Faith Hospice volunteer at Grace Presbyterian Village. She was a state-certified ombudsman for Greater Senior Citizens of Dallas from 1997 to 2004.

Taylor earned two bachelor’s degrees from Southern Methodist University in journalism and foreign languages (she speaks French and German). She also obtained her Master of Liberal Arts from SMU. She completed a year of study toward a Master of Theological Studies from Perkins School of Theology, also at SMU.

Her honors include recognition by the Dallas Business Journal in its annual "Forty Under 40" Awards and a nomination for the Golden Rule Award from JCPenney.

She was born January 4, 1961 in Pasadena, Calif., and lived in Tifton, Ga., Pittsburgh, Pa., Richmond, Ind., and Frankfurt, Germany, before moving to Dallas for college.

As a freelance writer, she wrote for the Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, D Magazine, the Dallas Observer, Document, Buddy and Jam.

Her background also includes three years as a reggae disc jockey at community radio KNON 89.3 FM, where she organized bi-annual benefits.

She has taken many acting classes and many playwriting workshops and continues to take literature classes. She is also an accomplished triathlete, a near winner of the Durango Tango at the State Fair of Texas, and the founder of The Others Feminist Book Club.