Backdrop: Timothy Bond

Story by Karen Hor

Photography by Taylor Miller

As a kid, Timothy Bond always had a flair for the theatrical. He dreamed of becoming an athlete or a broadcast journalist. “At some point, I wanted to be a politician. Then Watergate happened and I went the other way,“ he laughed. At age 19, he became the director of a community summer stock theater in California, and for three weeks—in a cabin, out in the woods—he bossed around 13- to 17-year-olds in musicals. After graduating from the University of Washington with a Master of Fine Arts in directing, he had almost every job in the theater. Now as the Producing Artistic Director at both Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University’s Department of Drama, he works with directors and casters. Tim’s latest project is The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story based on the 19th century Henry James novel. Constantly traveling between Syracuse and New York City for castings, Tim found some time to show us what is behind the curtains.