Tom Ferriter directed the world premieres of Paul Enger's In The Air (also producer), a love story during the Great Flu epidemic of 1918, Off Broadway at Theatre 315, James MacGuire's Nanny (also co-producer), an American comedy of extended families at the Nottara Theatre-Bucharest, in a Romanian translation and with an all-Romanian cast, and the European premiere of Harding Lemay's From A Dark Land, a World War-II drama of complicity, at the National Theatre of Romania-Craiova (co-producer, Romanian translation, all-Romanian cast), after having produced and directed the premieres of Marlene Shyer's First Wife, a serious comedy about divorce, at the Emelin Theatre (Mamaroneck), Diane Leslie's and Mary Orr's family musical, Enchanted Afternoon, a fairy tale of suspense with an environmental theme, and Frank O'Donnell's Twisters, a psycho-sexual, prison escape drama, Off Broadway at the Nat Horne Studio Theatre on New York's Theatre Row. Tom produced and directed the world premieres of Tedd Smith's Perpetrator, inspired by the story of Norman Mailer and John Henry Abbott, at the Singers Forum, and Jerry McGee's Reunion at Red Fork (an ode to Americana), at the Marilyn Monroe Little Theatre. He has produced and directed 6 Rms Riv Vu, and American Blues: Two Plays by Tennessee Williams, Off Broadway, and more than 50 plays in workshop in theatres in and around New York since founding Stageplays Theatre Company in 1992. Tom is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Dramatists Guild, Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He is a graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute's Master Producing Class and is a Member of the Producer Development Program at The League of American Theatres and Producers.
Tom Ferriter has been a visiting professor to the Academy of Theatre in Bucharest, and a guest professor at the Academy of Theatre in Oslo. He was Performance Coach to America's Health Network, a 24-hour cable TV network transmitted by satellite to more than 10 million households across America, and was a member for three years of the faculty of The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where his classes included Acting for Film and Television, TV Commercial Acting, and Basic Acting Techniques. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Business Management from California State University - San Francisco and an Associate of Arts degree in Economics from Santa Barbara City College.
