Tim Eliot

Tim Eliot is an actor, teacher, coach, writer, director, and producer. A cofounder of Form & Pressure Films, he wrote and acted in their first short, Marisol, which aired for two years on HBO, won awards from HuffPo and Cabbagetown FF, and played at over 60 festivals worldwide. He has been featured on Blue Bloods, The Gilded Age, The Deuce, The Plot Against America, Boardwalk Empire, and Godfather of Harlem. Recent films include Diaries of an Exchange Student, Paris is in Harlem, The Rainbow Experiment, and Seven Lovers. A veteran of classical and downtown theater, Tim played MacBeth with Everett Quinton and Sleep No More alums in a Catholic Church in Chinatown, Hamlet at the cell, and Romeo at Yale. He directed Romeo & Juliet in an abandoned garage in Long Island City, Much Ado in a garden/gallery in Chelsea, and Erdman’s Suicide!? in a former piano factory in Hell’s Kitchen. Tim currently teaches both Shakespeare in performance and a survey of storytelling media at NYU. He studied with Bob Krakower and Bill Esper, got his MFA from the ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard and his BA from Yale University.