After 5 years of serving on the faculty of Otterbein University in Columbus, Ohio, Thom now returns to his roots as an Actor and Director, and is THRILLED to be newly repped by Nicole Pryor Dernersesian and the extraordinary staff at Firestarter Entertainment Talent. Having spent the bulk of his career working on and off Broadway, in national touring companies and some of the nations most lauded Regional Theaters, Thom now thrills in the creative balance between performer, director and coach; constantly accessing skills from one discipline in order to inform another.

While working at Otterbein, Thom had the pleasure of directing productions of “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” Andrew Lippa’s brilliant “Big Fish,” a mixed media, virtual production of “Into a Lamplit Room; A Kurt Weill Song Cycle,” (during the pandemic, and at a time when many programs were forced to cease all production work), and “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” In Columbus, Thom recently directed “Little Shop of Horrors,” and “The 39 Steps” for Short North Stage, as well as “Little Women” at Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music (CCM), starring Sara Sheperd (Carole King in “Beautiful”) and Christy Altomare (Anya in “Anastasia,” Wendla in “Spring Awakening”)

As an actor, Thom spent over 15 years on Broadway with Disney’s “The Lion King,” having played Scar, Zazu, Timon and Pumbaa, as well as having served as the Resident Director for the production’s Cheetah Company, and assisting the creative team in mounting the show in Shanghai, China. Regionally, Thom has had the opportunity to play a slew of dream roles; Harry in the world premiere of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s “Harmony” (La Jolla Playhouse), Black Stache in “Peter and the Star Catcher” (Theatre Aspen), Albin/Zaza in “La Cage Aux Folles” (Short North Stage), Tateh in “Ragtime” and Horace in “Hello, Dolly!
(both at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre), and Finch in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (Stages St. Louis). Other favorites include the Broadway revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker, “Babes in Arms” (Guthrie Theatre), “Gypsy” starring Betty Buckley and Deborah Gibson (Paper Mill Playhouse), Dan in “Next to Normal” (Porthouse Stage Company), and the Adult Men in “Spring Awakening” (Short North Stage).

Concert work includes singing alongside the legendary Barry Manilow at Madison Square Garden and the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas, The Sondheim Birthday Concert with the New York Philharmonic, Wall to Wall Sondheim at Symphony Space and regularly appears in the celebrated “Sondheim Unplugged” series at NY’s 54 Below.