Leif Tilden
- Location Management
- Director
- Actor
Leif Tilden was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lived with his mother
Anne Kilborn in Berkeley, California before being raised by his father
after his mother's untimely death. Leif moved to New York City at 18 to
attend NYU's Tisch School of the arts to study Dance, Film and Experimental Theatre. After NYU was co-founder
of the Fragile Anchor Theatre Company in the Lower East side and was also a member of the Manhattan Class Company. Leif has worked with Theater Directors Joseph Chaikin, Robert Wilson, Jerzy
Grotowski, Anne Bogart and Kevin Kuhlke. After NYU, Leif then landed the role of Donatello in the first two
Teenage Mutant Turtle Movies and worked on several projects after that with the Jim Henson Company. He later studied with the late Cinematographer Sven Nykvist in Sweden.
wrote and directed his first short film, entitled 'biglove' which
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His official directorial debut, '1 Mile to You' (AKA 'Life at The Speeds') premiered in 2016. Leif was the Location Manager on 'Colin in Black and White' for Netflix created by Ava Duvernay and is presently the Location Manager on 'Staircase' for HBO.
