Tim Barsky is a Jewish American musician from Boston, Massachusetts. Based in California, he is a beatboxer instrumentalist, playwright-performer, and urban circus artist. 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 Hasidic folklorist and archivist Fishel Bresler. He is the artistic director of City Circus and a co-founder of Vowel Movement Beatboxers.