Biography
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Disney Legends · 2017
- Annual award ACFK · 2016
- Tony Award — Best Direction of a Musical · 1998
- Tony Award — Best Costume Design · 1998
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming · 1993
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- MacArthur Fellows Program · 1991
- Guggenheim Fellowship · 1989
- Drama League Award
- Fulbright Scholarship
- Laurence Olivier Awards
- Richard Rodgers Awards — Musical Theatre
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 2003 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Original Score · 1998 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Direction of a Musical · 1997 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Scenic Design · 1997 · nominated
Filmography15 titles
The Ghosts of Versailles
The Magic Flute
On Broadway
Frida
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
The Lion King
Across the Universe
The Colbert Report
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Muse of Fire
The Glorias
Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
The View