Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor attended high school in New Jersey in the 1970s where he played the drums, worked in a clothing store, and spent a lot of time at the movies. He studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (with Alan Becker and Shirley Guy), and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute (with Hope Arthur and Charlie Laughton), and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in media from New Jersey City University. He worked as a handyman in the early 1980s at New York's Actor's Playhouse where Harvey Fierstein was debuting "Torch Song Trilogy" and years later, would work with Fierstein and Danny DeVito on the film Death to Smoochy (2002). Taylor did his first television commercial in the late 1980s for the New York oldies radio station, CBS-FM. He played a singing short-order cook. In the early 1990s, he wrote and directed his first film, the award-winning short, Rocky & Bullwinkle: One Last Story (1991), and appeared on stage in regional productions of "Wait Until Dark" and "American Buffal