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Tom Gilroy is an American director, writer, actor, producer, playwright, poet, musician, and teacher. Gilroy has written, directed and produced five films, including the award-winning short ''Touch Base'' and the critically acclaimed feature ''Spring Forward.'' He has appeared in over 20 television shows and 30 films''.'' With his theatre company Machine Full, Gilroy has produced over a dozen critically acclaimed productions, most recently the multi-media production of ''Hamlet'' for the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Gilroy is also a published
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poet, having authored ''the haiku year'' and ''Haiku, Not Bombs'' among others. Gilroy has collaborated with
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on several projects, including "Everything’s Coming Undone," for the compilation album ''Ciao My Shining Star, The Songs of Mark Mulcahy.'' He has performed as a musician on tracks by Stipe, Mark Mulcahy, Dub Gabriel, and Ariel Aparicio, whose album ''Aerials'' he produced. Gilroy has also taught as a professor at
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Career


Directing

Tom Gilroy has written, directed and produced five films. Among them are three shorts, the award-winning ''Touch Base'', ''Mr. Sycamore'', and ''It Happened Today'', his most recent collaboration with R.E.M. He has also written and directed the critically lauded feature ''Spring Forward'', starring
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. His most recent feature film as writer/director is ''The Cold Lands'', starring
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, which premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2013. The film also featured a book of photography and haiku, entitled ''Somebody Else’s Nowhere: Haiku and Images from The Cold Lands''. Gilroy is currently developing another feature-length film entitled ''Our Lady of the Snow'', which recently won the prestigious San Francisco Film Society/KRF Grant and received fellowships from the Djerassi and McDowell colonies. As a screenwriter, Gilroy was commissioned to write a feature film for ''Orange is the New Blacks Nick Sandow. Entitled ''Star of the Sea'', it will be Sandow’s third feature as a director.


Acting

Gilroy has appeared in over 20 television shows including ''
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.'' He also acted in upwards of 30 films, having worked with such directors as
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, for which he was a writer and director.


Theater

Gilroy’s plays have been produced in several US cities and around the world. With his theatre company Machine Full (co-founded with Lili Taylor and
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), he has written numerous critically acclaimed plays, most notably ''The Invisible Hand'' and ''Halcion Days''. His other works include ''Sugar Cane and Coffee Cup'', ''Collateral Damage'', ''American Lesion'', ''Witch’s Tit'', and ''The Invisible Hand''. In 2005 he directed
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in the play ''Nine Ten'' for the 24 Hour play project. He has also directed a production of
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’s ''Incident At Vichy''. Most recently, Gilroy produced and directed the multi-media production of ''Hamlet'' for the New Jersey Shakespeare festival, starring Richard Harris, Jared Harris, and Lili Taylor.


Poetry

Gilroy has authored various haiku pieces, including ''the haiku year'', ''Haiku, Not Bombs'', the ''Festival Of Writers Haiku Project'', and ''Somebody Else’s Nowhere'', which features haiku and photography.


Music

Gilroy has collaborated with
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on several projects, including "Everything’s Coming Undone," for the compilation album ''Ciao My Shining Star, The Songs of Mark Mulcahy.'' He has performed as a musician on tracks by Stipe, Mark Mulcahy, Dub Gabriel, and Ariel Aparicio, whose album ''Aerials'' he produced.


Academics

As a professor, Gilroy has taught at multiple prestigious institutions. He taught at Columbia University for five semesters, and at Davidson College for one. Gilroy is a three-time MacDowell Fellow and a two-time Sundance Lab Fellow. He has also received the 2015 Kenneth Rainin Screenwriting Grant from the San Francisco Film Society and the Esteemed McGee Chair for Filmmaking at Davidson College. Gilroy also won the 2015 Djerassi Residency Award from the San Francisco Film Society.


Filmography


Film


Television


References


External links

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