Tim Barsky is an American musician from Boston, Massachusetts.[1] Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a beatboxer-instrumentalist, playwright-performer, and urban circus artist.[2] He is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Islamic and Judaic religious studies. He also studied at the Berklee School of Music and with the Chasidic folklorist and archivist Fishel Bresler.[1]
Trained as a traditional Jewish storyteller,[3] his use of contemporary culture within traditional forms resulted in The Bright River,[4] an underground theatrical piece that achieved cult status within the Bay area.[5] In 2007 he was awarded a $50,000 Gerbode Emerging Playwright's Grant[6] for Track in a Box, a hip hop and circus based play about junkie police, strippers and giant puppets which was set to premiere in Fall 2009.
His work has been produced and performed at The Brava Theatre (2006–08), Climate Theatre (2008; also artist-in-residence), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2005), Julia Morgan Theatre in Berkeley (2004–05),[1] Traveling Jewish Theatre in San Francisco (2004), The Exit Theatre in San Francisco (2003), The Finborough Theatre in London (2002), and AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island (1997–2001).
A former line-producer for the Burning Man Arts Festival, and a member of the Hybrid Project at San Francisco's Intersection for
the Arts, he has been a guest artist and lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), Stanford University, RISD, and Oberlin College; a featured speaker at The American Press Institute; and a beatboxing instructor in San Francisco juvenile detention facilities.
He was the artistic director of City Circus from 2007 - 2010 and a co-founder of Vowel Movement Beatboxers.
^ abcHurwitt, Sam. "Word Beat", San Francisco Chronicle, 5 December 2004.
^Eaton, Nathaniel. Tim Barsky's new play, 7 Beggars, leaves us begging for more, SF Weekly, 7 October 2008.
^Schwartz, Jay. ‘The Bright River’ fuses mouth magic and hip-hop shtick, JWeekly, 10 December 2004.
^Hurwitt, Robert. "Hop a subway to a restless hip-hop underworld", San Francisco Chronicle, 9 December 2004.
^Barsky's 'Bright River' flows to beat of beatbox, Oakland Tribune Archived January 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
TimBarsky is an American musician from Boston, Massachusetts. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a beatboxer-instrumentalist, playwright-performer...
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and civic leader William Henry Draper III, a nephew of venture capitalist Tim Draper, a cousin of actress Jesse Draper, and a great-grandson of banker...
cities to stop dumping their sewage (treated or not) into river systems. Barsky ran in the federal election of 1993 in Canada for election to the House...
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Dayan was named after Moshe Barsky, a member of Degania Alef who was the first kibbutz member killed in an Arab attack. Barsky was killed in November 1913...
false flag and "honey trap" techniques). According to ex-KGB defector Jack Barsky, "Many a right-wing radical had given information to the Soviets under a...
Wayback Machine. Barsky 1997, pp. 140-1; Noam Chomsky (1996). Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian. Pluto Press. pp. 135-6; Tim Weiner, "The C...
band. Aside from his collaborations with Geoff Farina, Ryley Walker, Jeff Barsky, Holly Anderson, David Michael Curry, and Kevin Mikka, and split EPs with...
ISBN 978-1889323206. Barsky, Vladimir (2009). The Scotch Game for White. Chess Stars. ISBN 978-954-8782-73-9. Botterill, G. S.; Harding, Tim (1977). The Scotch...
and head women's basketball coach at the University of Connecticut Max Barsky (b. 1991) — professional wrestler best known by his ring name David Starr...
Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine. DCIEM 92-10. Toronto, Canada. Barsky, Steven M.; Long, Dick; Stinton, Bob (2006). Dry Suit Diving: A Guide to...
Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2021. Barsky, Steven M.; Long, Dick; Stinton, Bob (2006). Dry Suit Diving: A Guide to...
Florida: Global Underwater Explorers. pp. 137–. ISBN 978-0-9713267-0-5. Barsky, Steven (2007). Diving in High-Risk Environments (4th ed.). Ventura, California:...
Baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-11. Wheatley, Thomas (2017-11-02). "Jack Barsky was a KGB spy with a double life. Today, he's a dad living in Covington...
the sunken Admiralty floating dock in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka Barsky 2007, chpt 3 Barsky 2007, chpt 4 Staff (August 2016). Guidance for diving supervisors...
(Royal Navy) Institute of Naval Medicine Report. Alverstoke, England. 25–87. Barsky, Steven M.; Long, Dick; Stinton, Bob (2006). Dry Suit Diving: A Guide to...
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