Julie Taymor
Theatre Director, Film director
1952 –
Who is Julie Taymor?
Julie Taymor is an American director of theatre, 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 also received the 2012 Director Award for Vision and Courage from the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in New York City. 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 was the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and in 2013, the acclaimed off-Broadway production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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- Born
- Dec 15, 1952
Newton - Also known as
- Taymor
- Parents
- Spouses
- Elliot Goldenthal
(1982 - )
- Elliot Goldenthal
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College
Theatre
(1969 - 1974)
- Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College
- Lived in
- Boston
- Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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