Background and Bio:

Tim is originally from Northern California where he wrote his first of many musicals usually starring his sister and the neighborhood kids and featuring a score of whatever pop music was available in sheet music form. One might call them the original jukebox musicals, but this was long before the term was coined. Many bed sheets were sacrificed for curtains, many curtains became costumes and a good time was generally had by all.

In 1990 after college, Tim and many of these very same neighborhood kids formed their own light opera company: "Chico City Light Opera" (CCLO) where they learned their craft the old fashioned way, by presenting show after show with Tim serving as producer, sometimes director, sometimes performer, often selling tickets and fixing toilettes and taking out the trash when necessary.

This led Tim to be recruited by Freddie Gershon, CEO of Music Theatre International in 1997. Freddie tapped Tim to develop and create the first education division in a major musical theater licensing firm.

This provided Tim with the perfect opportunity to further his craft as a playwright. During his tenure at MTI, Tim adapted many musicals for the educational markets, working side by side with the shows authors if they were alive, and hoping not to be haunted by them if there were no longer with us and were perhaps not pleased with his work. (It’s hard to collaborate with the dead.)

Authors included Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Schwartz, and Sheldon Harnick to name a few.

In 2003 Tim teamed with Disney Theatricals to lead the team adapting Disney animation titles for the stage. In two years 8 shows were released into licensing, virtually creating the "direct to licensing" musical theater market. Titles include Disney’s Aladdin, Disney’s The Jungle Book, Disney’s Cinderella and Disney’s Mulan.

During this same period Tim began work on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory writing the book with Leslie Bricusse and adapting the score from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by Leslie and Anthony Newley. This led to record-breaking productions at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a three-year national tour as well as a special command performance for the President and First Lady at the Whitehouse.

In 2006, with Freddie Gershon’s blessing, Tim left MTI to form his own company: iTheatrics. iTheatrics continues the legacy of educational theater with an added focus of developing new musical theater works as well. Currently iTheatrics boasts both MTI and Disney as clients as well as MacMillan McGraw Hill publishing and the Jim Henson Company to name a few.

Four new projects are in development include: THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY, FRANKLY BEN and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH.