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Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor

Director · b. 1952 · Newton, Massachusetts, USA

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.

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  • Movie5.8

    Kurosawa, la voie

    Kurosawa's Way

    2011 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie6.5

    Muse of Fire

    2013 · 2 votes

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    Dante Ferretti - Scenografo italiano

    Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

    2010 · 3 votes

  • Movie8.7

    On Broadway

    2019 · 3 votes

  • Movie8.5
  • Movie7.0

    Lights, Action, Music

    2007 · 1 votes

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  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Colbert Report

    2005 · 313 votes

  • TV4.6

    Made in Hollywood

    2005 · 10 votes

  • TV7.0

    Behind the Scenes

    1992 · 2 votes