THOM FOGARTY has been at
"it" since 1973, performing with many of the downtown NYC scene-makers of the 80's and 90's. He worked with Kinematic, Timothy Buckley, Jane Comfort, Yoshika Chuma, Peter Anastos, Janet Panetta, Ping Chong, Tamar Rogoff, Alice Farley, Anna Leo, Lawerance Goldhuber, Amy Rosen and Derek Burnstein, Eric Barsness, Laura Staton and many others. As a
choreographer created works with Joseph
Chaikin (of The
Living Theatre and founder of The Open Theatre), Paul Zimet (The Talking Band),
the Judson Poets Theater, DV8 Physical Theatre (London) and H.M. Koutoukas. His choreography and
performance work has been presented at OSUDance, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, Jacob's Pillow, LaMaMaETC, Dixon Place, Joyce Soho, Joe's Pub @ The Public Theater, Judson Church, Duke University, and throughout Europe. He taught dance and theater craft in
Dusseldorf, Germany and Long Island University (Stony Brook).
His work, based in movement, has always dealt with the vastness of human conditions as told through the observance of small everyday gestures and their meanings. This movement vocabulary, which includes traditional miming, allows Thom to be both profane and profound at the same time, constantly creating a duality acknowledging the yin and yang in daily life.
He has to date designed all the elements of the work he has directed -costume, lighting and scenery. It all comes from his sense of "seeing the WHOLE production as one vision.
He directed the cabaret styled one-woman shows of Julie Kurnitz and Isabelle Thiele. Ms. Kurnitz work, CLINICAL TRIALS, was an original musical dealing with her life-long struggle living with Marfan Syndrome. He choreographed and performed in the 2007 and 2009 revivals of Al Carmines’ musicale CHRISTMAS RAPPINGS.
In 2010 he turned his energies to directing.
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2010
MOMENTS AND LEMONS - by Fred Giacinto (Theatre for the New City NYC)
BEING HEARD - by Lulu Fogarty (Dixon Place NYC)
BAD CONNECTIONS? - by Michael Levesque (The Bridge @ Shetler Studios NYC)
CROSS/HATCH - by Peter Mercurio ( a staged reading at Judson Memorial Church NYC)
2011
EURYDICE - by Sarah Ruhl (The Bridge @ Shetler Studios NYC)
HELL IS WHERE THE HEART IS (Gene Frankel Theater), a new play by Melissa Skirboll for the Planet Connections Festival. The production garnered 4 festival nominations [3 for acting and one design] - Thom's lighting design won the Outstanding Lighting Design Award.
BAD CONNECTIONS? - by Michael Levesque (The Cell NYC, the 2011 Edmonton and 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festivals)
IN THE NAME OF GOD - by Peter Adrian Cohen -- based on the PBS/FRONTLINE film “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero” by Helen Whitney (Judson Church, NYC)
DESDEMONA - by Paula Vogel (The Bridge, NYC)
LILLIAN SMITH: BEING HEARD - by Lulu Fogarty (United Solo Festival, Theater Row NYC and Syracuse University
MargOH! Channing is TIPSY! - by BT Shea (Duplex Cabaret NYC)
2012
10 TALL TALES ABOUT THE MEN I LOVE - by Thom Fogarty -- adapted from a short story by Ronn Smith (Judson Memorial Church as a fundraiser for The Ali Forney Center)
THE ARTIFACTS - by Steven Fechter (The Bridge @ Shetler Studios NYC)
BAD CONNECTIONS? - by Michael Levesque (2012 Orlando and 2012 Toronto Fringe Festivals and Rochecter, NY)
MargOH! Channing is TIPSY! - by BT Shea (Duplex Cabaret, Dixon Place and Laurie Beechman Theater NYC)
THE MENTEE – by Steven Fechter (The Bridge @ Shetler Studios NYC)
2013
LILLIAN SMITH’S STRANGE FRUIT - original manuscript by Lillian Smith (1945) adapted by Thom Fogarty © 2013 (a reading Waverly Place NYC)
MARGOH! SINGS THE BOOZE - by BT Shea (Dixon Place Lounge NYC)
BAD CONNECTIONS? - by Michael Levesque (2013 Toronto Fringe Festival)
A TAVOLA: A PERFORMANCE - by Elke Solomon (Oct. Magic Time @ Judson Memorial Church NYC)
LILLIAN SMITH: BEING HEARD - by Lulu Fogarty (The Loft @ Judson Memorial Church NYC)
2014
The Carole Bayer Sager Project: Album One (1/17 @ Judson Memorial Church + 1/18 @ The Duplex, NYC
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BFA in Dance Performance and Dance History, Ohio State University.
He is a proud associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).
His work, based in movement, has always dealt with the vastness of human conditions as told through the observance of small everyday gestures and their meanings. This movement vocabulary, which includes traditional miming, allows Thom to be both profane and profound at the same time, constantly creating a duality acknowledging the yin and yang in daily life.
He has to date designed all the elements of the work he has directed -costume, lighting and scenery. It all comes from his sense of "seeing the WHOLE production as one vision.
He directed the cabaret styled one-woman shows of Julie Kurnitz and Isabelle Thiele. Ms. Kurnitz work, CLINICAL TRIALS, was an original musical dealing with her life-long struggle living with Marfan Syndrome. He choreographed and performed in the 2007 and 2009 revivals of Al Carmines’ musicale CHRISTMAS RAPPINGS.
In 2010 he turned his energies to directing.
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2010
MOMENTS AND LEMONS - by Fred Giacinto (Theatre for the New City NYC)
BEING HEARD - by Lulu Fogarty (Dixon Place NYC)
BAD CONNECTIONS? - by Michael Levesque (The Bridge @ Shetler Studios NYC)
CROSS/HATCH - by Peter Mercurio ( a staged reading at Judson Memorial Church NYC)
2011
EURYDICE - by Sarah Ruhl (The Bridge @ Shetler Studios NYC)
HELL IS WHERE THE HEART IS (Gene Frankel Theater), a new play by Melissa Skirboll for the Planet Connections Festival. The production garnered 4 festival nominations [3 for acting and one design] - Thom's lighting design won the Outstanding Lighting Design Award.
BAD CONNECTIONS? - by Michael Levesque (The Cell NYC, the 2011 Edmonton and 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festivals)
IN THE NAME OF GOD - by Peter Adrian Cohen -- based on the PBS/FRONTLINE film “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero” by Helen Whitney (Judson Church, NYC)
DESDEMONA - by Paula Vogel (The Bridge, NYC)
LILLIAN SMITH: BEING HEARD - by Lulu Fogarty (United Solo Festival, Theater Row NYC and Syracuse University
MargOH! Channing is TIPSY! - by BT Shea (Duplex Cabaret NYC)
2012
10 TALL TALES ABOUT THE MEN I LOVE - by Thom Fogarty -- adapted from a short story by Ronn Smith (Judson Memorial Church as a fundraiser for The Ali Forney Center)
THE ARTIFACTS - by Steven Fechter (The Bridge @ Shetler Studios NYC)
BAD CONNECTIONS? - by Michael Levesque (2012 Orlando and 2012 Toronto Fringe Festivals and Rochecter, NY)
MargOH! Channing is TIPSY! - by BT Shea (Duplex Cabaret, Dixon Place and Laurie Beechman Theater NYC)
THE MENTEE – by Steven Fechter (The Bridge @ Shetler Studios NYC)
2013
LILLIAN SMITH’S STRANGE FRUIT - original manuscript by Lillian Smith (1945) adapted by Thom Fogarty © 2013 (a reading Waverly Place NYC)
MARGOH! SINGS THE BOOZE - by BT Shea (Dixon Place Lounge NYC)
BAD CONNECTIONS? - by Michael Levesque (2013 Toronto Fringe Festival)
A TAVOLA: A PERFORMANCE - by Elke Solomon (Oct. Magic Time @ Judson Memorial Church NYC)
LILLIAN SMITH: BEING HEARD - by Lulu Fogarty (The Loft @ Judson Memorial Church NYC)
2014
The Carole Bayer Sager Project: Album One (1/17 @ Judson Memorial Church + 1/18 @ The Duplex, NYC
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BFA in Dance Performance and Dance History, Ohio State University.
He is a proud associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).
