James J. Taylor was a self-taught videographer

Videographer

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 and member of Actors' Equity Association

Actors' Equity Association

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 in New York

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. Taylor was the driving force behind the creation of the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive

Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive

The Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive , located in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area is one of only four public archives of theater and other performing arts in the United States. The archive was established in 1991 with the goal of creating and preserving a videotape collection of...

 (WAPAVA).

After his death, the archive was renamed after Taylor as a posthumous honor — and a rather significant one at that; it is one of only two Actors' Equity-approved collections of theater performances in the country. The other is the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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 at Lincoln Center.

Taylor was once married to Mimi Cazort

Mimi Cazort

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, Curator Emerita at the National Gallery of Canada

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; their children include indie rocker Anna Domino

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 and film director Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor (director)

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.

External links

• News article published by the Washington Post.
• James J. Taylor WAPAVA Collection Hosted by the University of Maryland
  University of Maryland, College Park
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