Interview with 12th Night of the Living Dead's Timothy J. Cox

Author: Hannah Marie Ellison — Published: Nov 11, 2007 at 3:22 pm 0 comments
Timothy J. Cox has carved a niche in the independent theater community as an always reliable character actor. The actor, who just celebrated his 31st birthday last week, has appeared  in numerous regional, off-Broadway and off-off Broadway productions.
 
Acting began for the Philadelphia native when, as a youngster, he was enamored of the movies and of acting idols Jack Lemmon, Spencer Tracy, Albert Finney, and Jack Nicholson. It was while in the eighth grade, as an excuse to get out of math class, that Timothy happened on auditions for the school musical. When he was cast as the male lead, he became hooked on acting and hasn't stopped since. 
 
He is currently appearing as Sir Toby Belch (a coveted Shakespearean role for all character players) in the Impetuous Theater Group's critically lauded production of Brian MacInnis Smallwood's spin on the Shakespeare classic (inspired by the George A. Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead), 12th Night of the Living Dead, now in its final week of performances at The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in Lower Manhattan.
 
During the course of its run, the show has received positive notices from nytheatre.com, Back Stage, OffOffOnline, and even the New York Times. It also received a rave from yours truly here at Blogcritics, with Timothy's explosive comic performance as Sir Toby being one of the many things I raved about.

I had a chance to speak with Tim, as he's known to his friends, about the show and his background.

You've been involved with 12th Night of the Living Dead from the very beginning, correct?

I was invited to participate in an informal reading of the script by Brian (MacInnis Smallwood, playwright) and James David Jackson (Artistic Director of the Impetuous Theater Group) in April of 2005. I had met Brian while working on a production of Measure for Measure a few months before; a production that John (Hurley, director of 12th Night of the Living Dead) had directed. Brian's one of the funniest people I've ever met, so when he told me the idea and where he wanted to go with it, I was very flattered to be asked and graciously jumped on board.

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Hannah Marie Ellison is a freelance writer on the subject of jazz, wine and theatre. Her articles and reviews have been published in theatrical publications all over the United States and in Prague.

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