Tom Cavanaugh received his M.F.A. in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama
School in 2000. Tom's full length play, BEHOLD was a 2010 finalist New American Playwrights Program at Utah Shakespearean Festival and won a 2011 Pickering Award for Excellence in Playwriting. ADAM & YOSHI was a finalist in McKinney Repertory Play Competition, Texas, finalist 2013 New American Playwrights Program Utah Shakespearean Festival 2014, INLAND EMPRESS, Tom’s full length
play, World Premiered in Los Angeles. THE FIELD a short play by Cavanaugh
premiered at The CTI Theatre Festival in Independence, MO. In 2018, Theatre of
Action in Los Angele’s Plays About Immigration listed Tom’s short play, COYOTE. Tom won the Artists & Playwright Festival at The Know Theatre in Binghamton, NY in 2018 with his short play, ROCKS ON THE PLAYS. Tom’s screenplay version of Behold won Best Feature Screenplay at the 2020 Bowery Film Festival in N.Y. In
2021, during Pandemic Lockdown, Tom wrote, produced and directed the Zoom
show, NOW, NOW, NOW... that performed in over five Fringe Festivals, won BEST
NATIONAL SHOW at the Pittsburgh Fringe, won Best LIVE-STREAM SHOW at the Big Sky Fringe, won an OVATION AWARD at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and recently was nominated for a MAVERICK MOVIE AWARD at the Maverick Movie Festival in London, England. NOW, NOW, NOW... combines the acting of 19 actors from New York City to Los Angeles from their Covid safe homes in one Zoom show.