Personal Life
Timothy D. Bellavia was born May 1, 1971 in Buffalo, New York. After graduating from Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester and later earning an MFA from Pratt Institute, Bellavia lived in New York working as an artist, a runway model for alternative fashions, an actor on a cable soap opera, and even had a stint as a backup dancer for Cyndi Lauper, before landing a job as a curator at the Tenement Museum on the lower East Side.
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