Alex Timbers

Guest Director Mentor

Alex Timbers is an American two-time Tony-nominated writer and director and the recipient of Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and London Evening Standard Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucile Lortel Awards. He is the recipient of 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.

His Broadway directing credits include Moulin Rouge! The Musical,  Beetlejuice,  American Utopia, Oh Hello! On Broadway, Rocky, Peter and the Starcatcher, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and The Pee-wee Herman Show.

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: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City and Ben Platt Live from Radio City Music Hall, both for Netflix. 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, The Pee-wee Herman Show was filmed for HBO and received an Emmy nomination, and American Utopia will premiere on HBO in 2020.