Tim J. Lord
timjlord@gmail.com
435 S. Alexandria Ave. #201 B // Los Angeles, CA 90020 // (917) 628-3176
PLAYS/PRODUCTIONS/READINGS
“Department of the Interior” (2010)
Chalk Rep Flash Festival. September 2010
Down in the face of God (2009)
Reading: The Lark Theatre Roundtable Series. November 2009
Reading: Van Lier New Play Lab, Second Stage Theatre. November 2008
We declare you a terrorist… (2008)
Summer Play Festival at the Public Theater. July 2009
Workshop: The New Harmony Project. May 2009
Reading: The Public Theater. January 2008
“Montana Lovesong” (2008)
Finalist: 2007 Heidemann Award
Actors Apprentice Showcase, Actors Theatre of Louisville. January 2008
The View from Mt. Langley (2007)
Reading: Spring Theatreworks. June 2007
The Secret History of Caleb Caan (2006)
Workshop: Stanford Univ./Kennedy Center University Playwrights Workshop.
August 2006
Santa Ana Winds (2006)
Baldwin New Play Festival, University of California, San Diego. April 2006
Staged Reading: University of California, San Diego. December 2005
Marshal South Is Out Of His Mind, a puppet play (2005)
Puppetry Workshop, University of California, San Diego. June 2005
11 Hills of San Francisco (2005)
Workshop Production: HotCity Theatre Co., St. Louis, March 2007
Staged Reading: HotCity Theatre Co. New Play Festival, St. Louis. Aug. 2006
Voted Best of the Festival
Baldwin New Play Festival, University of California, San Diego. April 2005
Staged Reading: University of California, San Diego. December 2004
Tristan Tzara’s DADA All-Stars Traveling Roadshow (2004)
Radio play: Produced on The Lounge, KPBS, San Diego. October 2004
Better Homes & Homelands (2004)
Baldwin New Play Festival, University of California, San Diego. April 2004
“Putin Play #151” (2003)
Part of 300 Plays About Vladimir Putin. Rude Mechanicals, Austin.
December 2003
Peloponnesus (2002)
Reading: Veterans Center for the Performing Arts. October 2010
Finalist: 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Staged Reading: University of California, San Diego. September 2003
Reading: HotHouse Theatre Co., St. Louis, MO. July 2003
G-Men! (2001)
Staged Reading: Greenwich St. Theater. September 2005
Springes to Catch Woodcocks (1998)
Genesius Guild Directors Festival, New York, NY. August 2003
Staged Reading: HotHouse Theatre Co., St. Louis, MO. May 2002
PUBLICATIONS
“Calling Elvis,” Elvis Monologues, Lavonne Mueller, editor; Heinemann Publishing,
1997
Springes to Catch Woodcocks; Catch, Vol. 28, No.1; Ander Monson & Heidi Gotz,
editors
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Reader: The Public Theater
Member: The Somebodies, playwrights lab
Participant: Van Lier New Play Lab, Second Stage Theatre
Teaching Assistant: Undergrad Playwriting classes. UC San Diego, 2004-06
Teaching Assistant: Undergrad Writing for Television classes. UC San Diego, 2005-06
Associate Director: Staged Reading Series, HotHouse Theatre Co.;
St. Louis, MO; 2000–01
EDUCATION
MFA in Theater – Playwriting; Univ. of California, San Diego; June 2006
Playwriting Seminar; Chay Yew, inst; Univ. of California, San Diego, Spring 2006
Playwriting Seminar; Caridad Svich, inst; Univ. of California, San Diego, Spring 2006
Puppetry Workshop; Darko Tresnjak, inst.; Univ. of California, San Diego,
Spring 2005
Playwriting Seminar; Amy Freed & Brighde Mullins, insts; Univ. of California, San
Diego, Spring 2004
Collaboration Workshop; Daniel Fish, inst.; Univ. of California, San Diego,
Winter 2004
Graduate Playwriting Workshop; Paula Vogel, instructor, Brown University;
Fall 2002
BA with honors in Theatre & English Literature; Knox College, Galesburg, IL;
June 1998