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 completed a reading tour in Western Canada and did his launch in the
Bay Area this past January..The book is getting great responses. He is now in the process of recording it for NeWest Press as an audio book.
THE NAKED REVEAL - Tom’s new writing project is his attempt to make the Yat Malmgren approach to character transformation more accessible to artists in current times. As well as it being an intimate introduction to Yat and his teachings, he writes about his own personal experiences during his fifty year theatre career. There its interest from publishers in Canada and Europe.
ALMOST A THERAPIST - Tom continues to work with Miranda Bentley, his daughter, on a made for TV series about a therapist who needs therapy badly.
made during his fifty year theatre career.
CATALONIA INTENSIVE - After the great summer Intensive in France, YBC teachers Pamela Hollings and Miranda Bentley will be going with Tom to Catalonia near the end of June for a three-week intensive there. He will also be accompanied by his longtime artistic association and translator Elisabet Rafols.
ACTING
Tom and long time artistic colleague Michelle Haner, International teacher and artistic director, are continuing to develop their two-person creation Everyone’s A Hamlet. Keep an eye on the next manifestation in the Bay Area and possibly Paris.
CLASSES CONTINUE ONLINE AND IN-PERSON - This term Tom is also developing directors and those who might teach the YBC method in the future. It s a great group of people.