Taymor's film Across the Universe received a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Musical/Comedy in 2008. Her direction of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 2004 and is now in repertoire there. Her recent opera productions include an original opera, Grendel, composed by Elliot Goldenthal (Los Angeles Opera and the Lincoln Center Festival, 2006), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer. For her latest Broadway production, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, Taymor served as director and co-book writer. Other theatre work includes The Green Bird (New Victory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse and the Cort Theater on Broadway) Titus Andronicus, The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre for a New Audience) Juan Darién (Music-Theatre Group) co-adapter and director of The Transposed Heads (Lincoln Center and American Music Theatre Festival) and Liberty’s Taken (Castle Hill Festival). Taymor made her Broadway debut in 1996 with Juan Darién: A Carnival Mask (Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater), nominated for five Tony® Awards. It also garnered Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards for Taymor’s direction, and myriad awards for her original costume, mask and puppet designs. In 2008, the musical won three Molière Awards including Best Musical and Best Costumes. Julie won the 1998 Tony® Award for Best Direction of a Musical and for Best Costumes for The Lion King.
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