Tom Beyer won a prestigious Ovation Award in Los Angeles for his stage performance at the Mark Taper Forum in "The Cider House Rules," directed by Tom Hulce and adapted by Peter Parnell.
He starred opposite Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" at Reprise! in Los Angeles.
Jillian Armenante directed him in the premiere of her farce "In Flagrante Gothicto," in which he portrayed a 12-year-old french girl.
(Garland Award, Best Ensemble in a Comedy.
) He is an award-winning theatre director, and has received critical acclaim for his stage adaptations of classical works such as "The Canterbury Tales.
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He acted on many stages in Seattle, where he also produced and acted in an award-winning production of "Holy Days" written by Sally Nemeth, and spent three years as a company member of Seattle's Book-It Repertory Theatre, adapting literature into theatre.
After a brief stint in his New York homeland, he moved to Los Angeles for "The Cider House Rules" and shortly thereafter was directed by Roger Rees in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.
Tom is also a tap-dancer, a rusty classical organist, a dabbler on the piano, a marathon runner, and has a purple belt in Karate.
After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow job-seekers strive for dignity, success, or at least a job taking customer service calls from prison inmates for minimum wage. A hilarious, insightful look at job interviews, finding the courage to start all over, and life at the ENTRY LEVEL.
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.
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