Alex Timbers
Alex Timbers (born August 7, 1978) 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. He also received the 2019 Drama League Founder's Award for Excellence in Directing and the 2016 Jerome Robbins Award for Directing. He was nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award. For his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Timbers won a 2021 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical.
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Timbers at the 2022 Gaithersburg Book Festival | |
| Born | August 7, 1978 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, director, producer |
| Years active | 2009–present |
His Broadway credits include Gutenberg! The Musical!, Here Lies Love, Just For Us, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Beetlejuice, American Utopia, Oh Hello! On Broadway, Rocky, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Pee-wee Herman Show, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
His Off-Broadway credits include David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love, for which he won the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Director and the London Evening Standard Award, and The Robber Bridegroom, which won the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival.
For TV, Timbers directed and executive produced John Mulaney: Baby J, John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous and Ben Platt Live from Radio City Music Hall, all for Netflix. He won a 2023 Critics Choice Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on John Mulaney: Baby J.
He 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. Oh Hello! on Broadway was filmed for Netflix, and The Pee-wee Herman Show was filmed for HBO and received an Emmy nomination.
His debut picture book, Broadway Bird, was published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan, on May 24, 2022.