Kickback with Tim Koh, theater director
I’ll start off by saying Timothy Koh is impressive. Full stop. For one, he’s the only Shakespeare director I know. He’s also a 25 year old who made the decision to study Shakespeare and theatre (please note my prestige spelling) and English/American literature while working and writing at the same time. Senior year at NYU, to say the least, was a whirlwind for a lot of people. For Tim, that included writing an award-winning honors thesis that I’ll summarize as Paradise Lost is with the Shits: John Milton, the Garden of Eden, and All Manner of Bodily Waste, directing a social media-infused production of Julius Caesar , working for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winning producer Scott Rudin, and nabbing a prestigious fellowship with Playwrights Horizons before graduation. In the six months since, Tim hasn’t stopped for a break. This is not a “glorifying the grind” piece, though, it’s a “look at this kid” end of year retrospective of sorts. Tim and I meet at a midtown coffee sho...