Tim Eliot

Tim Eliot is an actor, teacher, coach, writer, director, and producer. He is a founding company member and the Managing Director of Krymov Lab NYC, led by Dmitry Krymov, “one of the world’s finest theater makers” (NY Times). He originated the lead male part in Krymov’s world premiere Three Love Stories Near the Railroad at La MaMa’s legendary Ellen Stewart Theater. A cofounder of Form & Pressure Films, he wrote and acted in their first short, Marisol, which aired for two years on HBO, won awards from HuffPo and Cabbagetown FF, and played at over 60 festivals worldwide. He has been featured on Blue Bloods, The Gilded Age, American Love Story, The Deuce, The Plot Against America, Boardwalk Empire, and Godfather of Harlem. Recent films include Notes on Complexity, Diaries of an Exchange Student, Paris is in Harlem, The Rainbow Experiment, and Seven Lovers. A veteran of classical and downtown theater, Tim played MacBeth with Everett Quinton and Sleep No More alums in a Catholic Church in Chinatown, Hamlet at the cell, and Romeo at Yale. He directed Romeo & Juliet in an abandoned garage in Long Island City, Much Ado in a garden/gallery in Chelsea, and Erdman’s Suicide!? in a former piano factory in Hell’s Kitchen. Tim currently teaches a survey of storytelling media at NYU and has a series of video essays called Full Contact Shakespeare. He studied with Bob Krakower and Bill Esper, got his MFA from the ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard and his BA from Yale University.