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Aug 26, 2024 · Alex Timbers has written 3 shows including A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (Conceiver), Boozy (Conceiver), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Bookwriter).
Alex Timbers (born August 7, 1978) is an American writer and director best known for his work on stage and television. He has received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Drama Desk Award, as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Grammy Award.
- Les Frères Corbusier
- Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
- The Pee-Wee Herman Show
- Peter and The Starcatcher
- Love's Labour's Lost
- The Last Goodbye
- 2013 and 2023: Here Lies Love
- Rocky The Musical
- OH, Hello!
- The Robber Bridegroom
Les Frères Corbusier has been responsible for many of Timbers's early shows and helped launch his career. Timbers founded the downtown experimental theatre company in 2003 after he graduated from Yale University with his college classmates Aaron Lemon-Strauss and Jennifer Rogien. One of their first shows, A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scient...
The show that truly launched Timbers's Broadway career (and was also produced by Les Frères Corbusier) was Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. The emo, punk-rock take on the seventh president positioned Jackson as a petulant rock star with a short fuse, and the musical was written by Timbers and his long-time collaborator composer Michael Friedman. The s...
Next up, Timbers directed The Pee-wee Herman Show, starring Paul Reubens. The comedy only played a short run over the holiday season, but the piece solidified Timbers as an up-and-coming director on Broadway.
Timbers proved more of his theatrical ingenuity and inventiveness with Peter and the Starcatcher, an original Peter Pan prequel based on the book Peter and the Starcatchers. Timbers co-directed with Roger Rees, whose partner Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) wrote the show. The play premiered downtown at New York Theatre Workshopbefore transferring to Broad...
Timbers teamed up with Friedman again for another original musical based on the Shakespeare comedy, which premiered at the Delacorte Theater as part of Shakespeare in the Park. The lively musical comedy may have only had a short outdoor summer run, but the cast recordingis available to listen to any time. We recommend a listen to enjoy the genius o...
We're sensing a Shakespeare trend! Timbers directed this musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and featuring Jeff Buckley tunesfirst at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and then at The Old Globe in San Diego. While the show, written and conceived by Michael Kimmel, hasn't made its way to New York (yet), the modern take on the star-crossed lovers ...
Timbers took on another epic tale when he joined forces with Talking Heads frontman David Byrne to adapt his concept album about First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos. Proving his innovative theatre tactics once again, Timbers reimagined a space at The Public Theater to create this immersive, concert-like event that earned widespread critical...
A musical based on a boxing movie? Sounds like an odd idea until you get Timbers involved, and he builds a boxing ring in the middle of the show and in the center of the theatre. The adaptation of the Sylvester Stallone classic premiered in Germany and opened on Broadway, earning a Tony Award for scenic design (remember that boxing ring?).
Comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney know who to turn to when they want to try something out on stage, and Timbers took the lead on their comedic Broadway outing, in which the pair played two old New York friends reflecting on the good ol' days, chock full of theatre in-jokes. The play premiered off Broadway before moving uptown, and you can watch...
Timbers revived the 1975 Broadway musical, based on a novella and a fairy tale, off Broadway starring Steven Pasquale as the titular robber. The production showcased all of Timbers's directorial toolkit, from ensemble-led casting to folksy tunes to inventive choreography.
The show was nominated for eight 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In July 2019 he directed Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston and then went on to direct the Broadway show at the Al Hirschfeld Theater.
Oct 19, 2017 · The show represented a series of firsts for so many of us (our first regional show, our first show at the Public, our first Broadway show)?and, for me, the first musical I ever wrote. I learned a great deal about the craft of writing and refining storytelling as well as the fundamentals of how shows happen on a bigger scale.
Aug 12, 2019 · To translate that quality to the stage, Timbers leaned into a theatrical brand of wit, building his show on embedded references to the musical theatre canon.
Nov 29, 2023 · (Photo by Caitlin McNaney for Broadway.com) In 2006, before Broadway beckoned, Alex Timbers was the fresh-out-of-college director of the viscerally confronting haunted attraction Hell House. At...
