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TIM SANFORD is the Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons, where he has served since 1984, beginning as a literary intern, then serving for nine years as Literary Manager and two years as Associate Artistic Director, before assuming leadership of the theater in January 1996. In his tenure he has produced writers as diverse as Billy Aronson, Jon Robin Baitz, Tanya Barfield, Neal Bell, Keith Bunin, David Cale, Kirsten Childs, Julia Cho, Kia Corthron, Brian Crawley, Tom Donaghy, Richard Dresser, Christopher Durang, Kate Fodor, Amy Freed, Jessica Goldberg, Ricky Ian Gordon, David Marshall Grant, David Greenspan, Adam Guettel, A.R. Gurney, Peter Hedges, Jordan Harrison, Michael Korie, Christopher Kyle, Tina Landau, James Lapine, Kenneth Lonergan, Quincy Long, Craig Lucas, Wendy MacLeod, Marlane Meyer, Richard Nelson, Bruce Norris, Lynn Nottage, Kira Obolensky, Adam Rapp, Theresa Rebeck, José Rivera, James Ryan, Sarah Schulman, Christopher Shinn, Nicky Silver, Evan Smith, Kelly Stuart, Jeanine Tesori, Kathleen Tolan, Sarah Treem, James Valcq & Fred Alley, Erin Cressida Wilson, Craig Wright, and Doug Wright. Notable productions from his tenure include Floyd Collins (Lucille Lortel Award, Obie), Violet (New York Critics Circle Award & Obie), Lillian (Obie), Betty's Summer Vacation (Obie), James Joyce's The Dead (New York Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Obie), Lobby Hero, She Stoops To Comedy (Obie), Small Tragedy (Obie), Fabulation (Obie), I Am My Own Wife (Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk Award, and Tony), Miss Witherspoon (finalist, Pulitzer Prize), and Grey Gardens (Outer Critics Circle Award). He is a past President of The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and a contributor to Dramaturgy in American Theater. He has a B.A. from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature from Stanford University.
Bio as of December, 2007.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Off-Broadway Companies - January, 2008
Production - September, 1996
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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