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TIM HEALEY
Consulting Producer
For ten years, I was partnered in life and work with acting teacher and director, Roy London. We had a commitment ceremony in 1988. Roy and I completed one film together. We had another film in pre-production, as well as several projects in development, when he became ill and died from complications due to the AIDS virus.
I have worked for 23 years in various capacities in the film business on projects from REPO MAN to Michael Mann's THE INSIDER.
I made my way from Location Manager, to Unit Production Manager, and on to Producing, through numerous companies: Universal, Disney, Tristar, MGM, New Line, HBO, New World, Cannon Films, and others.
Since 1999 I have done four films with noted music documentary director Robert Mugge (in 1964 we met in the ninth grade in Maryland).
I co-produced Mugge's RHYTHM ‘N’ BAYOUS: A ROAD MAP TO LOUISIANA. The film explores the music of north and south Louisiana.
I line-produced three projects for Mugge that were funded in part by Mississippi Public Broadcasting and the Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Mississippi: BLUES DIVAS, eight one-hour concert docs filmed at Ground Zero Blues, Clarksdale, Mississippi, hosted by the club's co-owner Morgan Freeman, and featuring Mavis Staples, Odetta, Irma Thomas, Bettye Lavette, Ann Peebles and others ( a two-hour compilation plays on STARZ); A NIGHT AT CLUB EBONY, a feature-length history of the legendary Indianola, Mississippi music club featuring performances by B.B. King, Bobby Rush and others; LOOKIN’ FOR TROUBLE: THE 25th ANNIVERSARY W.C. HANDY BLUES AWARDS, a concert documentary with Charlie Musselwhite, Pinetop Perkins, and many more.
I was lucky to work with feature director Michael Ritchie on several films including, ‘The Positively True Adventures of The Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom’ (AKA The Texas Cheerleader Movie) and the film version of THE FANTASTICKS, supervising and shooting 2nd unit, and Visual FX. Michael was a good friend and he encouraged me to write seriously before he passed away in 2001.
My first film project was Jenny Sullivan's ‘Access All Areas’ for the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute.
Before working in film, I was a dancer and actor for ten years. I wrote, produced, and performed my one-man show of monologues and movement pieces at PS 122 in New York City, in 1982. I had a grant as an Artist in Residence for the State of California Arts Council from 1979 to 1982. With that grant I developed new performance work and taught Theater and Movement for low-income senior citizens. I also taught young people for the Children's Creative Project, Youth Theater and other groups in Santa Barbara.
I collaborated on multiple theater projects with artist Michael Gonzales and was one of the originators who developed and produced The Summer Solstice Celebration, an Art Parade and Festival. The parade, giant puppets and floats built in community workshops, bars motorized vehicles, signs, written-words, and live animals. Thirty years later it is the largest single day event in Santa Barbara CA, drawing 100,000 spectators and participants.
I studied dance and acting on the west coast and New York City with multiple teachers, including pioneers of the Contact Improvisation movement and acting with William Hickey at HB Studio.
When I was first out of high school in the late sixties I worked for a rock promoter organizing concerts, helping run a night club and publishing an underground newspaper in Washington DC. Before that I was a teenage runaway and worked my way through high school as a janitor hauling trash in an office building.
I am currently writing non-fiction including a book about my life with Roy, ‘Between Birthdays’. I volunteer with SNAP, The Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, helping in their protest work and I am the proud mentor of a wonderful foster child through the Mentoring Project at GLASS (Gay & Lesbian Adolescent Services). Photo by Matthias Vriens
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