Of the
Pacific Resident Theatre
 TOM
BEYER won an Ovation Award for
his performance at the Mark Taper Forum in the two-part epic
drama "The Cider House Rules," under the direction
of Tom Hulce. The Center Theatre Group asked him back again
for the recent premiere of "The Very Persistent Gappers
of Frip" at their new Kirk Douglas Theatre, immediately
after appearing in Tom Jacobson's "The Orange Grove,"
directed by Jessica Kubzanski. He acted on many stages in Seattle,
including the Intiman Playhouse, the Seattle Shakespeare Festival,
New City Theatre, Alice B. Theatre, and the Seattle Children's
Theatre. He produced and acted in an award-winning production
of Sally Nemeth's dustbowl drama "Holy Days," and spent
3 years as a company member of Seattle's Book-It Repertory Theatre,
adapting great works of literature into theatre pieces. After
a brief stint in his New York homeland, he was brought to Los
Angeles to work at the Mark Taper Forum, and shortly after that
was hired by Roger Rees to act at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre
in "The Merry Wives of Windsor." He recently appeared
in "Liliom" at the Missouri Rep and in "Babes
in Arms" at Broadway Reprise. Last year, he did the one-man
tour-de-force "Billy Bishop Goes to War" at the Cider
Mill Playhouse in New York. He was a 12-year-old French girl
in Jillian Armenante's award-winning Jane Eyre spoof "In
Flagrante Gothicto," and played a leading role in the Broadway
Reprise! production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,"
also starring Broadway favorites Alice Ripley, Hugh Panaro and
Valerie Pettiford. At P.R.T., he did "Beyond Therapy"
in the Co-op Space. Tom has acted in almost every style of theatre:
Shakespeare (Puck in "Midsummer…", Hortensio
in "Taming of the Shrew," and Richard II in "Richard
II"), Musical Comedy (Bobby in Sondheim's "Company"),
absurd drama, traditional drama, farce, dance and performance
art. He is thankful for the excellent start he got many years
ago when he studied with the wonderful teachers at S.U.N.Y.-Binghamton's
theatre department. And since living in Los Angeles, he has
appeared in the Jim Carrey film "Bruce Almighty," recurred
on the hit drama "C.S.I.," and also had roles on "Frasier,"
"Angel," "Crossing Jordan," "Strong
Medicine," "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," and "S
Club 7." He played a supporting role in "Scott's Play,"
which won ifilm.com's award for 'best short film,' and which
had a run throughout the film festival circuit. Tom is also
a classical organist, a dabbler on the piano, a tap-dancer, a
marathon runner, and holds a purple belt in Kenpo Karate. He
recently completed a new adaptation/translation of "The
Canterbury Tales," which will soon be premiering somewhere
in the country. |
