Tim Cummings
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Tim Cummings (born 1973) is an American actor and writer.[1]
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Family
Timothy P Cummings was born in Port Jefferson, New York to James A. and Rosemarie Cummings. He has four siblings and one half-sibling. His father was a Lieutenant with the NYFD (Engine 82, Ladder 31) in the South Bronx for thirty years.[2]
Education
Cummings graduated from Comsewogue High School, where he appeared in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Twelve Angry Men, Babes in Arms, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown and Bye Bye Birdie. He was also the president of the school's drama society, and received a scholarship to attend New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He later received a BFA w/ Honors from New York University. While at NYU, he studied at The Stella Adler Conservatory and The Experimental Theater Wing.[3] He performed in productions of The White Album Project, Fornes's The Conduct of Life, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Shaw's Man & Superman, Durang's Naomi In The Living Room and Maeterlink's The Intruder
Career
After graduating, Cummings began performing as a company member in two of New York City's downtown theater & dance companies, Big Dance Theater and The Builders Association, with whom he toured extensively, performing in festivals across US, the UK, and Europe.[4]
He later joined The Flea Theater as a company member,[3] where he performed in Mac Wellman's Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, and Three Americanisms, as well as the melodrama Billy the Kid written by Walter Woods in 1903.[5]
He directed an original black comedy by playwright Kenny Finkle, Transatlantica. He understudied for the Off-Broadway play The Guys, as well as for the acclaimed Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which starred Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci and was directed by Tony-winning director Joe Mantello.[6]
Cummings subsequently relocated to Los Angeles to take on television and film work in addition to theatrical roles,[5] where he received favorable reviews and numerous awards for his performance as Ned Weeks in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart as well as his portrayal of Patsy in The New Electric Ballroom by Tony Award-winning Irish playwright Enda Walsh. He serves as Associate Director of the Youth Program at The Ojai Playwrights Conference and is the Literary Manager for Rogue Machine Theatre.
Awards & Nominations
Year | Award | Category | Result |
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2000 | Obie Award | Jet Lag w/ The Builders Association (Marianne Weems) | Won (Special Citation) |
Obie Award | for Big Dance Theater (Annie-B Parson) | Won (Special Citation) | |
2005 | LA Weekly Theater Awards | Best Supporting Actor for Burn This | Nominated |
2007 | Garland Awards | Best Supporting Actor for The Pursuit of Happiness at Laguna Playhouse | Nominated |
2011 | Ovation Awards | Best Season (including Roddy Doyle’s War & Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce) at Theatre Banshee | Nominated |
2012 | LA Weekly Theater Awards | Best Comedy Ensemble for The Walworth Farce | Nominated |
LA Weekly Theater Awards | Best Revival for Camino Real | Nominated | |
2013 | Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle | Best Ensemble for Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom | Won |
LA Weekly Theater Awards | Best Supporting Actor for The New Electric Ballroom | Won | |
LA Weekly Theater Awards | Best Revival for The New Electric Ballroom | Nominated | |
StageSceneLA Awards | Best Ensemble for The New Electric Ballroom | Won | |
StageSceneLA Awards | Best Featured Actor for Eurydice at South Coast Repertory | Won | |
2014 | Broadway World Awards | Best Lead Actor for The Normal Heart at The Fountain Theatre | Won |
The Eddon Awards | Best Lead Actor for The Normal Heart | Won | |
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle | Best Lead Actor for The Normal Heart | Won | |
StageSceneLA Awards | Best Lead Actor for The Normal Heart | Won | |
StageSceneLA Awards | Best Lead Actor for Reunion at South Coast Repertory | Won | |
StageSceneLA Awards | Best Ensemble for Reunion at South Coast Repertory | Won | |
LA Weekly Theater Awards | Best Revival Production for The Normal Heart | Nominated | |
LA Weekly Theater Awards | Best Lead Actor for The Normal Heart | Nominated | |
Ovation Awards | Best Season (including The Normal Heart) at The Fountain Theatre | Won | |
2015 | StageSceneLA Awards | Performance Of The Year for The Woodsman | Won |
SAGE Awards (ArtsInLA) | Best Lead Performance for Need To Know | Won |
Work
STAGE
2010--Present
- Need To Know
- 2015 Ojai Playwrights Conference
- The Woodsman
- 2014 Ojai Playwrights Conference
- Nine Hours (Young Playwrights Festival at Blank Theatre Company)
- Reunion
- Skylight Theatre's SALUTE to Terrence McNally
- The Normal Heart
- 2013 Ojai Playwrights Conference
- 2013 Pacific Playwrights Festival
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- The Firebird (with the LA Phil)
- Eurydice (Ruhl play)
- 2012 Ojai Playwrights Conference
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The New Electric Ballroom
- Winterfest—47 Plays in 18 Days (Producer/Performer/Playwright)
- The Guys (10-year Anniversary performances)
- 2011 Ojai Playwrights Conference
- The Walworth Farce
- Camino Real
- War
- The Winter’s Tale
- Magic Framework
- The Soltanoff/Findlay Wkshp
2000--2009
- Slasher
- Hamlet
- Tartuffe
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3 wkshps)
- The Last Schwartz
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- The Guys (5-year Anniversary performances)
- The Outsiders Presents IV
- The Handlers
- Madelyn Kent’s Peninsula
- Constantly Distracted (Director)
- “IV”
- Lanford Wilson’s Burn This
- The Moonlight Sonata
- Patrick Marber’s Closer (play)
- Host
- The Seagull
- Madelyn Kent’s SHUFU: Iraqi Interview
- Mac Wellman’s Three Americanisms
- The Homecoming
- Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
- Transatlantica
- The Guys
- Billy the Kid
- No Mother to Guide Her
- Mac Wellman’s Cleveland
- Mac Wellman’s Sincerity Forever
- Centaur Battle of San Jacinto
1990--1999
- Jet Lag (1998-2000)
- Park
- Girl Gone
- A Simple Heart
- The Gas Heart
- Sugar Down Billie Hoak
- The Fairground Booth
- 20/21
- Distortion Taco
- Anus Mundi
- Mississippi Nude
- Leopold and Loeb are Dead Now
- The White Album Project
- The Conduct of Life
- The Threepenny Opera
- Terrence McNally’s Andre’s Mother
- Naomi in the Living Room
- Man and Superman
- Titus Andronicus
- Geography of a Horse Dreamer
- Brecht’s Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
- Intruder (play)
- West Side Story
- Brighton Beach Memoirs
1985--1989
- Bye Bye Birdie
- The Fantasticks
- Guys & Dolls
- Sweet Charity
- Twelve Angry Men
- Cinderella
- Grease
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Babes in Arms
- Free to Be You and Me
- The Sound of Music
- Snoopy! The Musical
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Alice in Wonderland
- You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
- Frankly, Franklin
FILM & TV
- Kensho at the Bedfellow (film)
- Spirited (film)
- Something Strange: 23 Peculiar Perspectives of Metaphysical Phenomena in a Modern American Age (film)
- My Two Fans (tv)
- Criminal Minds (tv)
- Presence (film)
- Sunken Warrior (film)
- Exit Interview (film)
- Box (film)
- 'Three Americanisms’ (film)
- Morning Fall (film)
- The Gas Heart (film)
WRITING
-- "Cummings' voice howls boldly, bravely, beautifully, wittily, cunningly, mellifluously into the literary wilderness. He guides us effortlessly to see/to be his characters. He accomplishes his sleights of hand with grace and believability and power. I admire him enormously." - Caroline Thompson
-- "It feels as though you've been transported to multiple worlds and back, leaving you breathless and panting. Through a variety of forms, Cummings gives birth to fascinating characters and stories. His writing is rich and lush, beautifully exploring the paradoxes of the real and the surreal. The only thing that I can compare it to is perhaps a Bosch painting." - Chris Corkum, 2011 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for XOXO Hayden
- Jake Curve (novel)
- Exit Interview (film)
- Hellish (play)
- HOST (dancemagoria)
References
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