Tim Cummings


Tim Cummings is an American actor and author.

Early life

Timothy P Cummings was born in Port Jefferson, New York to James A. and Rosemarie Cummings. He has four siblings and one half-sibling. His father was a Lieutenant with the NYFD in the South Bronx for thirty years.

Education

Cummings graduated from Comsewogue High School, where he appeared in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Twelve Angry Men, Babes in Arms, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown and Bye Bye Birdie. He then attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a BFA. While at NYU, he studied at The Stella Adler Conservatory and The Experimental Theater Wing. He performed in productions of The White Album Project, Fornes's The Conduct of Life, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Shaw's Man & Superman, Durang's Naomi In The Living Room and Maeterlink's The Intruder.
Cummings received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, in June, 2018.

Acting career

After graduating from NYU, Cummings began performing as a company member in two of New York City's downtown theater & dance companies, Big Dance Theater and The Builders Association, with whom he toured extensively, performing in festivals across US, the UK, and Europe.
He later performed with The Flea Theater, in Mac Wellman's Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, and Three Americanisms, as well as the melodrama Billy the Kid written by Walter Woods in 1903.
He directed an original black comedy by Kenny Finkle, Transatlantica. He was an understudy in the Off-Broadway play The Guys and in the Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'.
Cummings subsequently relocated to Los Angeles to work in television and film in addition to theatre, where he played Ned Weeks in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart as well as Patsy in The New Electric Ballroom'' by Enda Walsh.
Cummings served as Associate Director of the Youth Program at The Ojai Playwrights Conference from 2011 to 2017.

Career in writing

YearAwardCategoryResult
2000Obie AwardJet Lag w/ The Builders Association
Obie AwardFor Big Dance Theater -
2005LA Weekly Theater AwardsBest Supporting Actor for Burn This
2007Garland AwardsBest Supporting Actor for The Pursuit of Happiness at Laguna Playhouse
2011Ovation AwardsBest Season at Theatre Banshee
2012LA Weekly Theater AwardsBest Comedy Ensemble for The Walworth Farce
LA Weekly Theater AwardsBest Revival for Camino Real-
2013Los Angeles Drama Critics CircleBest Ensemble for Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom
2013LA Weekly Theater AwardsBest Supporting Actor for The New Electric Ballroom
2014Broadway World AwardsBest Lead Actor for The Normal Heart at The Fountain Theatre
2014LA Weekly Theater AwardsBest Revival Production for The Normal Heart
2014LA Weekly Theater AwardsBest Lead Actor for The Normal Heart
2014Ovation AwardsBest Season at The Fountain Theatre
2014Los Angeles Drama Critics CircleBest Lead Actor for The Normal Heart at The Fountain Theatre
2015StageSceneLA AwardsPerformance of the Year for The Woodsman
2016SAGE Awards Best Lead Actor for Need To Know
2017Ovation AwardsBest Production for The House In Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
2017SAGE Awards Best Lead Actor for The House In Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
2018Los Angeles Drama Critics CircleBest Lead Actor for The House In Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
2019Critical Read Literary MagazineOrigins essay contest for You Have Changed Me Forever
2019Pushcart PrizeFor You Have Changed Me Forever
2019Ticket Holders LA AwardsBest Performance in a Play for Daniel's Husband
2019Ovation AwardsBest Lead Actor for Daniel's Husband

Work

Film

2010–2019
2000–2009
1990–1999
1985–1989