Bios
TIM McGILLICUDDY (Playwright)
is a poet, playwright and performer- devotee of the spoken word, from New York City.
While swinging a hammer by day and raising a family by night, for many years he wrote poems, play dialogue, and parts of novels on yellow pads, 2x4's and bar napkins. Now working fulltime at his métier, his completed works include ten books of poetry, and five plays, with many still on the assembly line.
He is a graduate of Regis High School. He studied literature and theatre at St. Michael's College in Vermont, sneaking in an Autumn at King’s college London. He attended the Chautauqua acting conservatory, then moved to Paris where he studied History at the Sorbonne and spent two years reading great works. He also directed three plays and steeped himself in the arts and all things Parisian.
Back in New York he studied voice for the stage with Robert Neff Williams. He built sets at Julliard and MTC. Over the years he has worked in the theatre in many capacities while collaborating on the adaptation of fairy tales, popular and religious stories and original works.
THE DRILLING COMPANY (Producing Theater)
Now in its 22nd year under the Artistic Direction of Hamilton Clancy, the mission of The Drilling Company is to produce, nurture, inspire and develop new, quality American plays by emerging dramatists who incite social change, and to present innovative outdoor stagings of Shakespeare FREE in NYC's Lower East Side and Bryant Park, fostering and supporting a dynamic company of professional theatre artists and bringing audiences of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds together.
The Drilling Company began co-producing Shakespeare in the Parking Lot with Ludlow Ten in 2001 on the Lower East Side. After Mr. McKenzie's retirement in 2005, The Drilling Company was asked to continue the great tradition of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot.
Having seen TDC's Shakespeare in the Parking Lot productions, in 2014 BPC invited TDC to offer FREE Shakespeare in Bryant Park. The inaugural production in 2014 was HAMLET. That collaboration has led to seven years later to over 15 FREE productions, attracting upwards of 150,000 patrons.
Both Shakespeare programs are not ticketed nor are reservations required.
Through world premieres of full-length plays, the TDC Discovery Series and the ShortPlay Projects, the company has offered the development and production of countless new works since 1999 to playwrights around the United States and the world.