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Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director and writer of theater, opera, and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997 and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for her direction and costume design.
The official website for Julie Taymor, director of Film, Theatre, and Opera.
Julie Taymor is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy and Tony Award winning director whose productions range from musicals and Shakespeare plays to classical operas and films.
Whether directing for the stage or screen, Julie Taymor has consistently defied cultural expectations and tested technological limits, reinventing storytelling in the process. She is perhaps best known for her 1997 Broadway hit The Lion King , which earned her Tony Awards for Direction and Costume Design.
Showing spectacular clips from productions such as Frida, The Tempest and The Lion King, director Julie Taymor describes a life spent immersed in theater and the movies.
Nov 1, 2005 · 35 Who Made a Difference: Julie Taymor. Transcending genres, the designer and director creates shamanistic theater. Edward Rothstein. November 1, 2005. Wikimedia Commons.
Dec 7, 2021 · Julie Taymor is an award-winning theater, opera, and film director best known for being the first woman to win a Tony Award for directing a Broadway Musical: The Lion King. After college, she spent a year studying puppetry in Eastern Europe, Indonesia, and Japan and spent four years in Java.
Most of the world knows Julie Taymor as the director of The Lion King, the epic, viral Broadway smash that has circled the globe. It’s become a modern myth, virtually Homeric. A wild spectacle...
Julie Taymor. Working in musicals, Shakespeare, film, and opera, Julie Taymor is a wildly imaginative and provocative director and designer. In 1998, Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony Award (r) for Best Direction of a Musical for her production of The Lion King.
News about Julie Taymor, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
