Alex Timbers

Alex Timbers is a Tony-nominated writer and director and the recipient of Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as two OBIE Awards.

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

Background

Timbers grew up in New York City. Between 1994 and 1997, he attended Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, IL, one of the wealthiest cities in the Midwest. He graduated from Yale University in 2001, where he served as president of the Yale Dramat.^[1]

Career

In March 2011, Timbers co-directed Peter and the Starcatcher for Disney Theatricals at New York Theatre Workshop.^[3] The show opened to a rave review from Ben Brantley in The New York Times, and Timbers won the 2011 Obie Award for Direction.^[4][5] The production was the fastest-selling show in New York Theatre Workshop's history and extended three times.^[6]

For Gutenberg! The Musical!, Timbers was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Director of a Musical.^[7] 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.^[8] Timbers conceived and directed A Very Merry Unauthorized..., for which he received another Obie Award, as well as two Garland Awards for the subsequent Los Angeles production. His 2006 revival was heralded by The New York Times as the "Best Revival of the Year."^[9][10]

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, co-written with Michael Friedman, opened with Timbers directing at the Public Theater to rave reviews.^[11] It returned to the Public the following year, extended three times, and became the second highest-grossing show in the downtown institution's history.^[12] It transferred to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway on September 20, 2010.^[13] 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.^[14]

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.^[15]

Les Freres productions include Dance Dance Revolution, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hell House, Heddatron, and Hoover Comes Alive!.^[16]

In Fall 2005, Timbers served as an assistant director on the Broadway premiere of Jersey Boys.^[17]

He is slated to direct a rock musical version of the David Byrne–Fatboy Slim song cycle Here Lies Love in 2013.^[18]

References

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing

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