Alex Timbers Signs on to Direct HECK Film

According to Variety, Broadway director Alex Timbers will direct the upcoming big screen adaptation of Dale E. Basye's Children's book- Heck. The movie will feature a screenplay by Bob Iserson and will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt.

In March 2011, Timbers co-directed Peter and the Starcatcher for Disney Theatricals at New York Theatre Workshop. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, co-written with Michael Friedman, opened with Timbers directing at The Public Theater to rave reviews. It transferred to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway on September 20, 2010.Timbers won a Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical and was nominated for a Tony Award for his book, as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award for his direction.

His other credits include The Language of Trees for the Roundabout Theatre Company, Beyond Therapy for Williamstown Theatre Festival and Bay Street Theater, the Off-Broadway hit Boozy, for which he also served as playwright, and underground at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music and internationally with David Dorfman Dance.

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