EVERYTHING IS MOVEMENT
ABOUT
inner & outer life//
Award-winning theatre director, master teacher, and writer. Working throughout Canada, Europe, and the United States for over thirty years.
Artistic Director: Yat-Bentley Centre for Performance (Saskatchewan & California)
THERE ARE NO STRAIGHT LINES IN ACTING
DIRECTOR
untying the knots//
Accomplished theatre director of over one hundred professional productions. Founder and producer of several festivals. Developed and championed some of the finest actors, playwrights across North America.
(left: burning vision at the grec festival, spain)
THE POWER OF SURRENDER
MASTER TEACHER
action & release//
Instructs actors, directors, dancers, writers, via conservatory training, group classes, one-on-ones. Taught university courses; now heads curriculum at Yat-Bentley Centre for Performance and leads workshops internationally.
Training: Yat Malmgren (Drama Centre, London)
Sanford Meisner (Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC)
Approach: Movement Psychology & Character Transformation, from work of Malmgren and Laban.
ACTING IS NOT JUST EMOTION
WRITER
discovering the unknown//
Published author, playwright, and lyricist. Short stories printed in over a dozen magazines. Plays produced throughout North America.
"The best moments here are as good as writing gets."
- from Globe and Mail review of Blind Man's Drum
Be sure to look for Tom's new novel -
The Boy Who Was Saved By Jazz.
WHAT'S UP FOR TOM
CURRENT ACTIVITY
THE BOY WHO WAS SAVED BY JAZZ is in the book stores! Tom will be starting a book tour in Western Canada early this summer. Other readings for Tom’s novel will be announced soon and will include the Bay Area as well as International Festivals. The response so far has been beyond his expectations. Early reviews are amazing.
THE NAKED REVEAL - Tom has been wanting to write this book for years and has been at it solidly for twelve months. It is his attempt to make the Yat approach to character creation more accessible to artists in current times. His deep intention is to accomplish this without compromising the astonishing contribution Yat Malmgren brought the international artistic community. As well as a practical introduction to the work, it is based on his relationship with Yat, and the discoveries Tom has made during his fifty year theatre career.
ALMOST A THERAPIST - Tom continues to work with Miranda Bentley on a made for TV series about a therapist who needs therapy badly.
FRANCE - Along with YBC teachers Pamela Hollings and Miranda Bentley, Tom is conducting a three week Intensive in the south of France in late July.
AND EVEN ACTING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS - Tom and long time artistic colleague Michelle Haner, International teacher and artistic director, will be performing their two-person creation piece Everyone’s A Hamlet at Playground Festival on Potrero Stage in San Francisco the last week in August.
*This is in addition to teaching his wonderful students at YBC, currently online and in-person in San Francisco and LA.