About Me

This site is dedicated to the work of teaching acting using online resources either as a medium or as a way of supporting your work in the studio. It’s based on the educational principles of Bloom’s Taxonomywhich offers a pyramid of categoric learning types that build toward the act of creativity. I think it’s a perfect fit for an approach to acting training. My personal preference is to combine activities scaffolded in this structure and infuse them with the guiding principles of constructivism. This theory holds that people learn by building a real place for new knowledge out of their understanding of past experiences. To me that wraps around the idea of creating a role very nicely. However you approach helping students achieve their goals as actors, I hope these resources are useful tools in leading them on that journey.

BIO

Tom holds an M.F.A. from the Brandeis University Professional Acting Training Program. He recently appeared in the Austin Film Festival premier of “The Catch,” can be seen in “Blow The Man Down” (winner Best Screenplay 2019 TriBeca film fest) on AmazonPrime, as Walter Steele in the award winning film “Chappaquiddick” on Netflix, in Episode 1 of Showtime’s series “City on the Hill,” in episodes of Stephen King’s “Castle Rock” on Hulu, and is Sam Guthrie’s Dad in the Marvel Comic thriller “The New Mutants” (Fox).

Tom’s play “Mary’s Little Monster” opened at Torn Page in NYC (July 2019). Along with writer/director Kristi Artinian, he devised a new immersive production entitled “The Summer I Disappeared” based on the life of Freedom Rider Ellen Ziskind which opened in NYC in September 2016. His play “Treed” was published in the Spring 2016 issue of the Bridgewater Review. His short play (Richard Harvey Square) premiered in NYC in early 2015, and his play “Nothing Personal” was presented as part of the The American Globe Theatre’s “15 Minute Play Festival” in NYC in 2012.

His theatrical credits credits include: the original American cast of the A.R.T./Punchdrunk UK production “Sleep No More”, Shakespeare & Company, Gloucester Stage Co., Boston Playwright’s Theatre, Bridge Rep, Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre (WHAT), the Vineyard Playhouse, New Repertory Theatre, New Century Theatre, and Stoneham Theatre.

His television/Film credits also include: Across the Pacific: Episode 1 (PBS), The Wrong Man’s (Showtime pilot), The Company Men (20 Century Fox), All My Children, As The World Turns, Days of Our Lives, Purge 3, The Reawakening, Children of the Struggle, and School Ties.