Taymor has also been nominated for 3 Tony Awards including Best Director, Best Costume Design and Best Score. In addition to her Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, Ms. In the fall she will film Titus Andronicus in Rome with Anthony Hopkins in the title role.

Her upcoming projects include work on a new opera called Grendel as well as the development of other musical and film projects. The show received 5 Tony Award nominations including a nomination for Ms. Also in 1996, she directed Juan Darien at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. She gained widespread recognition for directing and co-designing The Green Bird at the New Victory Theatre in 1996. Taymor's work has ranged from original musicals to Shakespeare plays to films and operas. These clips will play with the standard free RealPlayer. One is the RealPlayer which can be downloaded for free and the other is the RealPlayer Plus, a more feature rich application that you must pay for. In order to listen/watch the following clips you will need to download and install the RealPlayer which is available from There are two versions that you can download.

Taymor's presentation at The New Amsterdam Theatre. In cooperation with Disney, Playbill On-Line is pleased to present the following RealAudio/Video clip excerpts from Ms. Outer Critics Circle Award winner Julie Taymor recently spoke with an invited audience at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre on the subject of the making of the new Broadway musical, The Lion King.

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