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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.^[1]

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 then attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a BFA. While at NYU, he studied at The Stella Adler Conservatory and The Experimental Theater Wing.^[2] 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.

Cummings received his MFA in Creative Writing (Writing for Young People) from Antioch University Los Angeles, in June, 2018.

Acting career

After graduating from NYU, 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.^[3]

He later joined The Flea Theater as a company member,^[2] 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, [https://www.broadwayplaypub.com/the-plays/transatlantica/Transatlantica]. He understudied for the Off-Broadway play The Guys, as well as for the Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which starred Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci and was directed by director Joe Mantello.^[4]

Cummings subsequently relocated to Los Angeles to take on television and film work in addition to theatrical roles,^[5] where he played Ned Weeks in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart as well as Patsy in The New Electric Ballroom by Irish playwright Enda Walsh.

Cummings served as Associate Director of the Youth Program at The Ojai Playwrights Conference from 2011-2017.

Career in writing

Dramatic Writing

Awards and nominations

Work

Film

Television

Stage

References

1. ^http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tcpalm/obituary.aspx?pid=147904878
2. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://gofootlights.com/2014/04/tim-cummings/|title=Tim Cummings|last=Sibley|first=Graham|date=April 2014|publisher=Footlights|accessdate=2014-06-28}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://aumag.org/wordpress/2014/04/10/tim-cummings/|title=Rolling Heart into a Hard Role|last=Dulin|first=Dan|date=April 10, 2014|publisher=A&U Magazine|accessdate=2014-06-28}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://thevillager.com/villager_175/fiveyearslaterstill.html|title=Five years later, still one of 'The Guys'|last=Cummings|first=Tim|date=September 6–12, 2006|publisher=The Villager|accessdate=2014-06-28}}
5. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carla-escoda/tim-cummings-passage-to-t_b_3942394.html|title=Tim Cummings' Passage to The Normal Heart|last=Escoda|first=Carla|date=September 18, 2013|publisher=The Huffington Post|accessdate=2014-06-28}}
6. ^https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/LA-Actor-Author-Tim-Cummings-Launches-ANTHOLOGY-The-Ojai-Playwrights-Conference-Youth-Workshop-2006-2016-20171105
7. ^https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/BWW-Interviews-Actor-Tim-Cummings-Opens-Up-About-THE-NORMAL-HEART-20130910

External links

Early life