Career
In March 2012, Timbers and Roger Rees co-directed Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway. It was subsequently nominated for nine Tony Awards and won five. In March 2011, Timbers co-directed Peter and the Starcatcher for Disney Theatricals at New York Theatre Workshop. The show opened to a rave review from Ben Brantley in The New York Times, and Timbers won the 2011 Obie Award for Direction. The production was the fastest-selling show in New York Theatre Workshop's history and extended three times.
For Gutenberg! The Musical!, Timbers was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Director of a Musical. For Hell House, Timbers was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Theatrical Experience. His production of Dixie's Tupperware Party was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. Timbers conceived and directed A Very Merry Unauthorized..., for which he received another Obie Award, as well as two Garland Awards for the subsequent Los Angeles production. His 2006 revival was heralded by The New York Times as the "Best Revival of the Year."
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, co-written with Michael Friedman, opened with Timbers directing at the Public Theater to rave reviews. It returned to the Public the following year, extended three times, and became the second highest-grossing show in the downtown institution's history. It transferred to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway on September 20, 2010. The show won a Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Broadway.com Award for Best Musical. Timbers won a Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical and was nominated for a Tony Award for his book, as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award for his direction.
His other credits include The Language of Trees for the Roundabout Theatre Company, Beyond Therapy for Williamstown Theatre Festival and Bay Street Theater, the Off-Broadway hit Boozy, for which he also served as playwright, and underground at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and internationally with David Dorfman Dance.
Les Freres productions include Dance Dance Revolution, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hell House, Heddatron, and Hoover Comes Alive!.
In Fall 2005, Timbers served as an assistant director on the Broadway premiere of Jersey Boys.
He is slated to direct a rock musical version of the David Byrne–Fatboy Slim song cycle Here Lies Love at the Public Theater in March 2013.
Timbers is also developing his first feature film, an adaptation of Dale Basye's popular young adult novel Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go for MGM, from a screenplay written by David Iserson and Chris Weitz.
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