The Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce its first-ever Resident Playwright, Tommy Jamerson!
Tommy has received over a hundred professional productions, and has published over twenty plays. His children's shows, The Big Bad Bullysaurus, Princess Pigface, Choose Your Own Oz, and Alice the Brave & Other Tales from Wonderland have been performed all over the world. His one-act campy comedy, Rags to B*tches, won Best Short Play at the 14th annual Downtown Urban Arts Festival (NYC) and starred RuPaul's Drag Race alums Alexis Michelle and Brita Filter. His play love/fantasy was named Best New Play at the Playwright's Forum Festival. Tommy holds a BS in Theatre with a Concentration in Playwriting from Indiana State University, and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of New Orleans. His works can be licensed through Youth PLAYS, Next Stage Press, Smith & Kraus, Big Dog Plays, and Heartland Plays. He lives in West Orange, NJ with his husband Mark.
Columbia’s Artistic Director, Jim Winter, has been working with Tommy for over a decade. Jim has directed the world premieres of several of Tommy’s plays including Alice the Brave & Other Tales from Wonderland, Choose Your Own Oz, Murderous Innocent, Once Upon A Pine, and the upcoming The Graveyard Girls. Tommy’s Alice’s Christmas in Wonderland, The House on Haunted Hill, The Jungle Book, and Aladdin: Choose Your Own Arabian Night, were all staged at the Columbia Theatre.
The Columbia partners with Tommy to help him create exciting new works of theatre, including our upcoming world premiere of his new original play, The Graveyard Girls. Tommy will be visiting Hammond this September to work with the cast as they bring his play to life. During his visits to Hammond, he often conducts special master classes for theatre students at Southeastern Louisiana University.
To learn more about Tommy, visit: https://www.tommyjamersonplays.com/index.html
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