Biography (The important one)
Timothy Braun is a writer living in Austin, TX. He is a fan of the Indianapolis Colts, and George is his favorite Beatle. In 2016 Braun was named a Taco Ambassador of the "Tacos of Texas" Taco Council, and contributed to the book Taco Journalism from the University of Texas Press.
Biography (Still factual, less soul-sucking)
Timothy Braun is a writer based in Austin, Texas. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, American Theatre Magazine, The Texas Standard, The Austin Chronicle, Austin Monthly, Culturebot, The Weeklings, Cinemanis, and The Bigger Picture, among other publications.
His creative work, spanning theatre, opera, interactive storytelling, and site-specific performance, has been presented in theaters, festivals, and unconventional spaces across the United States and Europe. Braun wrote “The Rules” chapter in The Handbook of Creative Writing (Second Edition), Edinburgh University Press, The chapters “Writing Isn’t Writing, Writing Is Rewriting, or, Make It Look Like You Knew What You Were Doing All Along” and “The Metaphor Is The Road To The Simile; or Aren’t We All Trying To Make This Metaphor Jazz Work?” in “The Playwright’s Toolbox”, Applause Books, and The Half Life of 64. His other plays are published by Concord Theatricals.
Braun has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Djerassi, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Ucross, Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Prairie Center for the Arts, Madroño Ranch, the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, the Osage Arts Community, HERE Arts Center, and the Lillian E. Smith Center. He was also a Dorothy Norton Clay Fellow at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts. His work has been supported by grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, Hatch, the John Anson Kittredge Fund, and the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division.
In addition to his theatrical work, Braun has been deeply involved in experimental and cross-platform storytelling. He collaborated with Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab on Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things, a global project launched at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center and later presented at the BFI London Film Festival. His interactive and game-based projects have appeared at SXSW and the Come Out & Play Festival, and he participated in SXSW’s Frankenstein AI: A Monster Made by Many. He was a Forward/Story Fellow in Indonesia and has received both National Science Foundation Innovation Research and Sawtelle Financial Teaching Innovation grants.
Braun is an Associate Professor of Practice in Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University, where he has been a three-time Innovations Fellow with their Center for Teaching Excellence and a two-time Distinguished Teaching Award Finalist.
He hates writing in the third person, but understands that sometimes it must be done.