Tim Manley is the director, writer, and star of the Emmy-nominated series The Feels.
Charlie is a lonely bi guy trying to figure out what to do with all these feelings. His story is one of many at the intersections of identity, mental health, and love. Starring Sara Ramirez, Adepero Oduye, Nicole Kang, Alice Kremelberg, Ianne Fields Stewart, Almonte, and more.
Tim is also a writer, performer, and teacher.
WRITER
Writer-illustrator of Alice in Tumblr-land, and in Condé Nast’s them, Catapult, and elsewhere.
PERFORMER
Storyteller featured on The Moth Radio Hour, SXSW EDU, Gimlet, and in FringeFAVE solo show, Feelings.
FILMMAKING
The Feels
BOOKS
Alice in Tumblr-land: And Other Fairy Tales for a New Generation
STORYTELLING
Feelings
The Moth
Surprisingly Awesome
Also HBO’s Girls, StoryCollider, the Unchained Tour, TYFCO, and many more live shows but I stopped doing them because The Feels broke something open in me and afterwards every time I told a story on stage I cried and I don’t always have the energy for that.
OTHER PROJECTS
Just Between You & Me
10 Letters Project
Lock Screen Love
Sleep Sloth
Thank You Cards
Fairy Tales for Twenty-Somethings
100 Reasons to be Happy
I need you to know how much I love you
Stories I wish I could tell you
Also there must be more, it seemed for years that all I would do is start new art projects, I was just trying to find anywhere to put all this stuff inside me.
OTHER WRITING
7 of the 10 Winners of This Prestigious Writing Award Are Queer!, them.
Teacher’s First April Fool’s Day, Catapult
NBA nominees for Young Readers’ Lit interviews: Neal Shusterman; Ali Benjamin; Laura Ruby; Steve Sheinkin; Noelle Stevenson
My Grandmother’s Halloween Costumes, Catapult
The 10 Letters Project
Stop Being Embarrassed by Fanfiction, Daily Dot
What Tumblr Taught Me About Writing, Publishers Weekly
10 Fairy Tales for Twenty-Somethings, Huffington Post
Untitled prose piece for Christopher Cook catalog, Ryan Lee
COACHING
NYC DOE Showcase Schools
Also The Moth, National Book Foundation’s BookUp, Catapult, St. Joseph’s College, Teachers College, and elsewhere. I used to be a high school English teacher at School of the Future and I still miss it.
FEATURED ON
You, Me, Empathy (10/26/2020)
Bisexual Brunch (8/28/2020)
Other Men Need Help (1/12/2020)
Forget the Box
Seltzer Death Match
The Whole Story
Surprisingly Awesome
The Catapult
Busayo
Cozy Zone
Retrospective
PRESS
NewNowNext
BuzzFeed AM2DM
MTV News
Salon
TeenVogue
The Guardian
BBC World Service
Bi.org
HuffPost
WNYC
HuffPost
National Book Foundation
TimeOut New York
StageBuddy
Modern Stories
Queerty
Stareable
Daily Mail
Out
El Pais
The Seattle Times