Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

All 18Movies 14TV 4

The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

On Broadway

Self (archive footage)

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Self

Julie Taymor: Shakespeares Kino

Herself

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Self - Stage and Film Director

Muse of Fire

Self

Pride of The Lion King

Self

Kurosawa's Way

Self

Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino

Self

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

Self

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Creating the Universe

2008

Lights, Action, Music

Self

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Hollywoods Oper - Eine Oper für Los Angeles

Self

The Colbert Report

2005

Made in Hollywood

Self

The View

Self - Guest

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Behind the Scenes

1992

The Making of The Lion King Broadway

Herself