Tim Cummings (born 1973) is an American actor and author.

Timothy P Cummings was born in Port Jefferson, New York to James A. and Rosemarie Cummings. He has four siblings and one half-sibling. His father was a Lieutenant with the NYFD (Engine 82, Ladder 31) in the South Bronx for thirty years.^[1]

After graduating from NYU, Cummings began performing as a company member in two of New York City's downtown theater & dance companies, Big Dance Theater and The Builders Association, with whom he toured extensively, performing in festivals across US, the UK, and Europe.^[3]

He later performed with The Flea Theater,^[2] in Mac Wellman's Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, and Three Americanisms, as well as the melodrama Billy the Kid written by Walter Woods in 1903.^[4]

He directed an original black comedy by Kenny Finkle, Transatlantica. He was an understudy in the Off-Broadway play The Guys and in the Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'.^[5]

Cummings subsequently relocated to Los Angeles to work in television and film in addition to theatre,^[4] where he played Ned Weeks in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart as well as Patsy in The New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh.

Cummings served as Associate Director of the Youth Program at The Ojai Playwrights Conference from 2011 to 2017.

• In summer 2025, Cummings' follow-up young-adult novel, THE THISTLE, THE I-H, & THE 8 HUGGING SNAKES, will be published by Black Rose Writing.^[6]
• In 2023, Cummings' debut novel, Alice the Cat, was published by Fitzroy Books, the Young Adult & Middle-grade imprint of Regal House Publishing^[7]
• In 2019, Cummings' essay, You Have Changed Me Forever, won lauded literary magazine Critical Read's Origins essay contest.
• In 2018, he had numerous works (interviews, reviews, short stories, essays, poetry,) accepted for publications at several prominent literary journals and magazines: Lunch Ticket, Larb, From Whispers to Roars, Meow Meow Pow Pow, F(r)iction, and Critical Read.^[8]
• In 2017 he released an eclectic collection of stories, poetry, and dramatic writings, called Anthology: The Ojai Playwrights Conference Youth Workshop 2006-2016. It was written by several participants of The Ojai Playwrights Conference Youth Workshop.^[9] He compiled and edited the collection in conjunction with his Master of Fine Arts program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
• The summer of 2011 saw the release of a unique collection called Orphans, which incorporates short stories, poetry, screenplays, plays, a film treatment.^[10]
• He wrote the full-length play, Bully, which explores the epidemic of teens committing suicide for being bullied.^[11]
• He is a regular contributor at Los Angeles Review of Books where he writes reviews, interviews, and profiles.^[12]