Creator / Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor (born 1952) is an American theatre and film director.

Taymor's directorial work is characterized by offbeat sound, saturated colors and trippy visuals. She is also well-known for her usage of masks and puppetry in her stage work, having studied their usage consistently as a student and founding a mask/dance company while in Indonesia. This is most prominently on display in The Lion King (1997), a stage adaptation of the Disney movie of the same name.

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Selection of works Taymor has directed:

Film

• Titus
• Frida
• Across the Universe (2007)
• The Tempest (2010)
• The Glorias

Theatre

• The Lion King (1997)
• Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass
• Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
• M. Butterfly (2017 revival)

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