Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor is an award-winning theater and film director. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors from Oberlin in 1974 with a degree in mythology and folklore, and promptly earned a Watson Fellowship, with which she traveled to Indonesia and Japan.

Julie has directed, among many other things:

• a production of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" (1992), the film of which won an Emmy
• the Broadway production of The Lion King (1997), and won two Tonys for it, making her the first woman to receive a Tony for directing a musical, and the only person to win both best direction and costume design
• the film Titus (1999), based on Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" starring Anthony Hopkins, which is a great movie
• the film Frida (2002), based on the life of Frida Kahlo, which won two Academy Awards
• the film Across the Universe (2007), a Beatles rock opera

According to the Review, she's also won a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

[edit] External links

• "An Interview with Director Julie Taymor", article in the Review (21 Sep 2007)
• "Julie Taymor Continues the Artistic Journey, Begun at Oberlin, with The Lion King", article in OAM (spring 1998)
• Article at Wikipedia