Alex Timbers was born on August 7,1978 and is an American writer and director and the recipient of Tony, Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and London Evening Standard Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucile Lortel Awards.
20 Facts About Alex Timbers
2.
Alex Timbers received the 2019 Drama League Founder's Award for Excellence in Directing and the 2016 Jerome Robbins Award for Directing.
3.
For TV, Alex Timbers directed and executive produced John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City and Ben Platt Live from Radio City Music Hall, both for Netflix.
4.
Alex Timbers is a co-creator of the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle which won the 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy.
5.
Alex Timbers served as the second assistant director on the Broadway premiere of Jersey Boys in 2005.
6.
Alex 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.
7.
In March 2011, Alex Timbers co-directed with Roger Rees Peter and the Starcatcher for Disney at New York Theatre Workshop.
Related searches
Fatboy Slim 8.
In 2014, Alex Timbers directed Rocky, based on the Oscar-winning film, on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre, for which he was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Director.
9.
In 2018, Alex Timbers directed the out-of-town tryout of Beetlejuice at the National Theater in Washington DC.
10.
In September 2019, Alex Timbers served as Production Consultant on David Byrne's American Utopia at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston.
11.
In November 2022, Alex Timbers directed the first national tour of Beetlejuice, which premiered at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater.
12.
Sardi's Restaurant honored Alex Timbers by unveiling a portrait of him for their famed wall of caricatures on July 20,2022.
13.
For Hell House, Alex Timbers was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Theatrical Experience.
14.
Alex Timbers conceived and directed A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, for which he and writer Kyle Jarrow won an Obie Award.
15.
In 2013 and again in 2014, Alex Timbers directed Here Lies Love at the Public Theater in New York City, 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.
16.
Alex Timbers was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Director.
17.
In 2014, Alex Timbers directed Here Lies Love at the National Theatre in London.
18.
In 2016, Alex Timbers directed a revival of The Robber Bridegroom for Roundabout Theater Company, which won the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival.
19.
Between 2003 and 2015, Alex Timbers served as the Artistic Director of the award-winning, experimental theater company Les Freres Corbusier.
20.
Alex Timbers is a co-creator with Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola, and Paul Weitz of the Amazon Studios series Mozart in the Jungle.