Tim Cummings Releases Book of Short Stories

Los Angeles and New York veteran stage actor Tim Cummings has released a book of collected stories entitled ORPHANS stories. The book, which contains a joyous superfluity of styles, forms, and themes, is available as both a digital and a print edition.

Cummings, who is set to open in Enda Walsh's Irish black comedy The Walworth Farce next week in Los Angeles, is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied acting and writing.

ORPHANS stories:
Set in 1940s Florida, Middle America, Hollywood in the 70s, curious netherspheres between life and death, and deep inside the imaginations of characters whose greatest abundances are their emotions, the ten stories in Cummings's eclectic collection evoke familiar and strange scenarios of love, loss, heartbreak, humor, spirituality, sexuality, and violence. Written in a strong, imaginative voice, "ORPHANS stories" spins a majestic web of people, places, relationships, and situations.

From romantic, heartfelt, and quirky to edgy, violent, and emotionally feral, this ‘orphanage' fosters tales of filicide, epilepsy, magical romance, addiction, spirituality, love, and the afterlife.

Author Cummings (who will be making appearances at bookstores in Los Angeles for readings) says, "It's a very unorthodox book, really original, and I like the risks entailed with that... I think it's important to put yourself out there...show the world who you really are. With this book, I feel really vulnerable, and that's probably the best thing about it. The whole thing is really idiosyncratic."

Inquiries, info, purchasing: http://www.orphansstories.com

Selected Acting Credits:
LA Credits:
The Walworth Farce (Theatre Banshee, directed by Tim Byron Owen); Camino Real (The Theatre @ Boston Court, directed by Jessica Kubzansky); Roddy Doyle's WAR (Theatre Banshee, directed by Sean Branney); The Winter's Tale, and Hamlet (Theater 150 in Ojai, both directed by Jessica Kubzansky); The Soltanoff/Findlay Project (Mark Taper Forum w/ Phil Soltanoff); Tartuffe (The Theatre @ Boston Court, directed by Josh Chambers); Only Say The Word (EST-LA, directed by Colin Mitchell); Slasher, and The Last Schwartz (both at The Zephyr, both directed by Lee Sankowich); The Pursuit of Happiness (Laguna Playhouse, directed by Andrew Barnicle); Larry in Burn This (at Stages Theatre Center, directed by John Sgueglia); Dan in Closer (w/ Hollywood Food Chain, directed by Ron Rogge).

Film/TV:
My Two Fans; Criminal Minds; Presence; Scorp; Exit Interview; The Box, etc.

Dance:
Magic Framework (Highways Performance Space); The Outsiders presents 'IV', and Moonlight Sonata (both at REDCAT).

New York Credits:
Broadway: Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune with Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci; Off-Broadway: The Guys, opposite Susan Sarandon and Sigourney Weaver; Other projects with past affiliations include works with Big Dance Theater (The Gas Heart, A Simple Heart, Girl Gone), The Builders Association (The White Album Project, Jet Lag), and The Bats at The Flea (Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, Billy The Kid, No Mother To Guide Her, Transatlantica, The Guys).