Julie Taymor | THE LION KING

Julie Taymor won the 1998 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and for Best Costumes for The Lion King. It also garnered Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards for Taymor’s direction; three Moliere Awards, including Best Musical and Best Costumes; and myriad awards for her original costume, mask and puppet designs. Taymor made her Broadway debut in 1996 with Juan Darien: A Carnival Mask (Lincoln Center), nominated for five Tony Awards. Other theatre work includes The Green Bird (New Victory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, the Cort Theater on Broadway); Titus Andronicus; The Tempest; The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre for a New Audience); The Transposed Heads (Lincoln Center and American Music Theatre Festival); Liberty’s Taken (Castle Hill Festival); and Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark (Hilton Theatre on Broadway). Her opera productions include the Pulitzer finalist, Grendel, composed by Elliot Goldenthal (Los Angeles Opera and the Lincoln Center Festival); Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, in repertory at the Metropolitan Opera since 2004; and Oedipus Rex with Jessye Norman, conducted by Seiji Ozawa, for which she earned the International Classical Music Award for Best Opera Production and an Emmy for a subsequent film version. Her first film “Fool’s Fire,” an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe short story, aired on PBS in 1992. Her feature films include Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange; Frida, starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina (six 2002 Academy Award nominations, winning two); Across the Universe (2008 Golden Globe nomination for Best Musical/Comedy); and The Tempest, starring Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand and Ben Whishaw. She recently directed the play Grounded, starring Anne Hathaway at the Public Theater and completed a cinematic version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, filmed during her critically acclaimed, sold-out stage production that ran at Theatre for a New Audience's new home in Brooklyn. Taymor has received a MacArthur “genius” Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obie Awards and the first annual Dorothy B. Chandler Award in Theater, among many others. A book spanning her career, Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire, is in its third edition from Abrams.

[@ABSG7]

She’s a legend of our time

[@samlichtenstein2754]

The Stampede on stage was amazing.

[@alfredogomezgonzales6731]

Yeah

[@HaleyRadiant]

I ADORE Julie Taymor! I’ve only seen a few films by her & already she’s one of my favorites! I adore her style & way of looking at things! 🥹

[@irvyne6111]

I don’t think it can ever be underestimated how smart Taymor’s decisions were in designing this show. The Lion King 100% should never have worked on stage. But… well, here we are. 😉

[@brandonplays702]

I live the cheetah so much. She did that so beautifully. I kept switching from looking at the cheetah to the cheetah controller I was mesmerized!

[@natekrieger5741]

Saw show in Vegas in 2012 & was in Awe of the Choreography!!

[@joecates3371]

No one else could have put the lion king on the stage but Julie taymor

[@kylekeller3398]

The Queen of The Lion King on Broadway!

[@TefTay]

Hey Julie people don't want to move to England for their affairs🎉

[@JackVirby]

Miss James don't want to move mind your own business