Biography
Tom is a director, primary acting teacher, voice and
dialects specialist, and current department chair. He is a member of Actors' Equity Association, the American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Screen Actors Guild, the Voice
and Speech Trainer's Association, and a certified instructor (level IV) of Alba
Emoting Technique. He has worked
at a range of theatres across the country including the Seattle Repertory, the
Tacoma Actors' Guild, and Goodman in Chicago. As a screenwriter Tom has had
several works optioned, a few multiple times, and developed scripts with several
major producers. He was commissioned to write a screenplay for world renowned
Argentine American pianist Ana Maria Trench de Bottazzi , and her husband,
conductor Dr. Bruno Bottazzi, based on Anna Maria's book To Live Again. Tom has
directed numerous original scripts, including one of particular interest called
The Mix-up Time, working with
playwright and novelist Daniel Keyes, author of Flowers for Algernon/Charley. The Mix-up Time was based on the first part of Keye's best-selling
novel The Minds of Billy Milligen. Tom has worked as an actor on a
number of films, including David Mamet's House
of Games, and the soon to be released Big
Miracle. He was sole talent on a commercial for Chevy Trucks, and has been
seen occasionally on UAA's Mainstage as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons, and John Adams in 1776. Tom has directed
many shows for UAA since he arrived, and will add Steven Levenson's The Language of Trees, and J. M. Synge's
The Playboy of the Western World to
that list this year. He is a veteran, a pilot of 40 years, and flies a
beautiful experimental STOL aircraft he built which has now logged more than
200 flight hours.
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