Julie Taymor is a Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated director whose productions range from musicals and plays to classical operas and films. Hailed as one of the most imaginative and provocative directors and designers working in the arts today, Taymor’s work includes Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and its all-time highest grossing show, The Lion King; as well as The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera and the films Titus, Frida, Across the Universe, and The Tempest. Taymor is a recipient of the 1991 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. Taymor is a Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence at the Aspen Institute.