Tom Dunn
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Henniker, NH
Tom was the first Director of The Playwrights' Center and after 10 years there went on to run New Dramatists in NY and then DC'sTheatre of the First Amendment
Biography

While running organizations for playwrights Tom has also been writing plays with some 90 produced plays, musicals and operas in a wide variety of venues.  Tom has also published four books and is a frequent contributor to various newspapers, magazines and blogs.

Awards he has won include the Holt-Rinehart Fellowship, 5 Wings Arts Council, Jerome Foundation travel grant, NH Arts Council Individual Artist awards, California Children's Theatre's best new play award, CTFA's Aurand Harris Award, PBSL Antioch College Fellowship, NHSCA Entrepeneur grants,  and the Bunte Crew One Act play award.

Currently Tom lives in New Hampshire and runs The Alchemists' Workshop--a professional touring company that specializes in original plays and musicals.

Plays

by Tom Dunn

Started life as a 10 min. play and was produced at the Source Theatre Festival in D.C. and then went on to productions in NYC at the Ray Arianas Theatre and in Nyack, NY.

Rewritten as a full length and read at The Playwrights' Center by a wonderful cast the full length version was produced in Concord, NH in 2014 and was nominated for the NHTA Best New Play Award and was nominated for the NHTA Best New Play Awards.  In Aug. of 2015 it'll be produced by the Cabrini Theatre in NYC..

 

Cast:
Donna Goldfarb Stephanie Pettibone
by Tom Dunn (libretto) and Will Ogmundson (music and lyrics)

A musical adaptation of Tomie dePaola's holiday classic, The Night of Las Posadas.  This hour long musical can be performed with four singers doubling parts or up to 12 singers with a chorus of up to 30.

Since opening in 2012 the musical has been performed in 43 different communities in New England including professional theatres, community theatres, schools, community centers, churches and senior centers.

Cast:
by Tom Dunn

Originally read at the MidWest PlayLabs in Wisconsin this two act, four character play based loosely on the ideas of Stephen Hawking has gone on to have productions in California, NYC, South Dakota, Ohio and Boston. 

Cast:
by William Ogmundson lyrics and music.

Based on Georgia's trip to Hawaii before WWII paid for by the Dole pineapple company so she would do for the lowly pineapple "flower" what she had done for the iris and other flowers. 

Cast:
Jocelyn Duford--Georgia Rose Rumkowski--teen guide
by William Ogmundson music and lyrics Tom Dunn libretto

Based on the real life story of Willa Cather's summers spent in Jaffrey, NH, where she did much of her best writing over almost two decades.

Cast:
Jocelyn DuFord, Heidi Hunter and Julie Coffin

Successes

Georgia O'Keeffe Paints Paradise has been invited to the Edinburgh Theatre Festival

Georgia's off-off production at the Jewell Theatre won best supporting actress and best music awards for Rose and Will.

Georgia's production at the International Theatre Festival in NYC won Will the best score award and won nominations for Jocelyn for best actress and Tom for best libretto.

Georgia NH tour won nominations for best new play, best actress and best musical.

Georgia was invited to perform at the Boston Playwrights' Derek Walcott Theatre.