“haunting, hallucinatory, and profoundly intimate” – VOGUE

UN-[TITLED]+Dress+Rehearsal+03+22+2023+by+Bruce+Tom+-+129-un-titled_0544.jpg

Tom Pearson’s work combines material culture and audience-centered narratives using theater, art, choreography, and poetry to investigate identity and belonging, loss and reclamation, exile and refuge. His mixed-media projects are often site-specific, immersive, and interactive, and he frequently collaborates in-community with other artists.

Performance

“Exacting, exuberant choreography” – The New York Times

Folger+Theatre+Confection+-+Photo+by+Brittany+Diliberto-065.jpg

Yours to Lose (2024), South by Southwest, Austin

UN-[TITLED] (2023), On the Boards, Seattle

Ikaros (2019), La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego

Confection (2019), Folger Shakespeare Library, DC

As Time Goes By (2016), St. Petersburg, Russia

The Grand Paradise (2016), Brooklyn

Then She Fell (2012-2020), Brooklyn

The One You Love is Sick (2010), Hong Kong

The Witness Project (2009), La MaMa E.T.C., NY

Vanishing Point (2008), Danspace Project, NY

Lacuna (2006), Lincoln Center, NY

REEL (2005), Museum of the American Indian, NY

Scroll to bottom for more performance works and other projects.

About Tom

“Wildly imaginative” – The New Yorker

Tom Pearson (he/they) is an award-winning, American multimedia theater artist, choreographer, and poet. Tom is founder and co-artistic director of the New York City-based performance company, Third Rail Projects, co-creator of its long-running immersive hits, Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise, and director for the Global Performance Studio, a program for cultural listening and exchange. Read More…

Poetry

“Above all, Pearson demonstrates a mastery of imagery.”

— Publisher’s Weekly

The_Sandpiper%27s_Spell_Illustration_Only_High_Res.jpg

Still, the Sky (2023) | Audio Book at Audible and iTunes

Eppure il Cielo (2023) | Interno Poesia Editore, Italy

Still, the Sky (2022) | Ransom Poet Publishers, New York

The Sandpiper's Spell (2018) | Ransom Poet Publishers, New York

VISUAL ART

“Mesmeric and enveloping… stunning visual multimedia”

— Kirkus Reviews

The Archives of Asterion (2020) | Olin College of Engineering

Stanzas (2019) | Ace Hotel New York

Agave Trio (2022) | at Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (2010) | DNA Gallery, New York

GPS/X

“a true cross-cultural exchange” – Susan Katz, CEC ArtsLink

Global Performance Studio / eXchange

A Program for Cultural Listening & Exchange + Process & Performance

The Global Performance Studio, led by Tom Pearson, is dedicated to creating work through collaboration, sharing the site-specific and experiential performances practices of Third Rail Projects, and engaging with communities around the world. GPS cultivates opportunities to foster diplomacy through shared practice, dialogue, and community building, all within a framework of cultural listening and peer-to-peer artist exchange. To-date, GPS has worked with artists in the United States, Hong Kong, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Italy, and Russia. Learn More…