Alex Timbers

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Alex Timbers (born August 7, 1978) is a two-time Tony-nominated writer and director and the recipient of Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucile Lortel Awards.

His Broadway directing credits include Rocky the Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher for which he was nominated for a 2012 Tony Award, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson which he also wrote the dialogue for and was nominated for a 2011 Tony Award, and The Pee-Wee Herman Show which was filmed for HBO and was nominated for a 2011 Emmy Award.[1] Timbers is Artistic Director of the New York-based company Les Freres Corbusier.[2]

Background

Timbers grew up in New York City. He graduated from Yale University, where he served as president of the Yale Dramat.[1]

Career

In 2014, Timbers directed Rocky the Musical (a stage musical version of the film Rocky) on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre, for which he was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Director.[3]

In 2013 and again in 2014, Timbers directed Here Lies Love, an immersive club musical about Imelda Marcos featuring the music of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, for which he won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Director.[4] The show was extended at the Public Theater three times, becoming the second-longest running show in the theater's history, and made numerous year-end Best Of lists including The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, Time, The Hollywood Reporter, Time Out, New York Magazine, and Vogue.[5] He was also nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Director.

In March 2012, Timbers and Roger Rees co-directed Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway. It was subsequently nominated for nine Tony Awards and won five.[6] In March 2011, Timbers co-directed Peter and the Starcatcher for Disney Theatricals at New York Theatre Workshop.[7] The show opened to a rave review from Ben Brantley in The New York Times, and Timbers won the 2011 Obie Award for Direction.[8][9] The production was the fastest-selling show in New York Theatre Workshop's history and extended three times.[10]

For Gutenberg! The Musical!, Timbers was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Director of a Musical.[11] For Hell House, Timbers was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Theatrical Experience. His production of Dixie's Tupperware Party was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.[12] Timbers conceived and directed A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, for which he and writer Kyle Jarrow won an Obie Award. Timbers also won two Garland Awards for the subsequent Los Angeles production, and his 2006 revival was heralded by The New York Times as the "Best Revival of the Year."[13][14]

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, co-written with Michael Friedman, opened with Timbers directing at the Public Theater to rave reviews.[15] It returned to the Public the following year, extended three times, and became the second highest-grossing show in the downtown institution's history.[16] It transferred to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway on September 20, 2010.[17] The show won a Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Broadway.com Award for Best Musical. Timbers won a Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical and was nominated for a Tony Award for his book, as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award for his direction.[18]

In August 2013, Timbers and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson composer Michael Friedman reunited for a musical version of the play Love's Labour's Lost that appeared as part of Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theatre.[19]

His other credits include The Language of Trees for the Roundabout Theatre Company, Beyond Therapy for Williamstown Theatre Festival and Bay Street Theater, the Off-Broadway hit Boozy, for which he also served as playwright, and underground at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and internationally with David Dorfman Dance.[20]

Les Freres productions include Dance Dance Revolution, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hell House, Heddatron, and Hoover Comes Alive!.[21]

In Fall 2005, Timbers served as an assistant director on the Broadway premiere of Jersey Boys.[22]

Timbers is also developing his first feature film, an adaptation of Dale Basye's popular young adult novel Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go for MGM, from a screenplay written by David Iserson and Chris Weitz.

He is a co-writer and co-creator with Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola of the Amazon Studios series Mozart in the Jungle, which was released in 2014.

Timbers is currently collaborating on the upcoming production of Up Here, a new stage musical featuring book, music and lyrics by the husband-and-wife composing team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, which premieres at the La Jolla Playhouse (California) in July 2015.[23][24]

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  23. ↑ Gioia, Michael. "Will Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez's 'Up Here' Musical Bow on Broadway?" playbill.com, June 4, 2014
  24. ↑ " 'Up Here' at La Jolla" lajollaplayhouse.org, accessed July 25, 2015
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