Timothy Braun is a writer whose essays have been published by The New York Times, Huffingtonpost, the Austin Chronicle, Austin Monthly, American Theatre Magazine, and The Weeklings, among others. He has been an artists-in-residence at MacDowell, Djerassi, Santa Fe Art Institute, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Ucross, Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and Humanities, Anderson Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies, Prairie Center For The Arts, Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing, Art, and the Environment, the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, the Osage Arts Community, HERE Arts Center, The Lilian E. Smith Center, and was a Dorothy Norton Clay fellowship at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts. The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Hatch, John Anson Kittredge Fund, and Puffin Foundation, and the City of Austin Cultural Foundation grants have funded his projects. His plays and operas have been performed in theatres, site-specific spaces, and festivals across the United States and Europe. Education includes a B.S. from Ball State University in History and Theater, an M.A. from the University of New Mexico in Theater and Dance, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. In 2015 Braun was invited by the Columbia University's Digital Storytelling Lab to work on "Sherlock Holmes and The Internet of Things," a collaborative project in 20 cities across the world with writers, game designers, and hackers launched at the 53rd New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center with his piece "The 66th Motivation." The project was in London as part of Power to the Pixel: Cross Media Forum, held in association with the 59th BFI London Film Festival. His Re/Play project has been to SXSW, and the Come Out and Play Festivals of New York and San Fransisco. Braun was a Forward/Story fellow in Indonesia in the summer 2017. He teaches at St. Edward's University, and serves on the board of directors of Austin Bat Cave in 2018.
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