Multimedia, cross-genre works combine material culture and audience-centered narratives with projects that employ theater, art, choreography, film, and poetry as well as ceremony, artifact, and mythos to craft interactive experiences.
Performance
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SELECTED PERFORMANCE-BASED WORKS
UN-[TITLED] at Inscape Arts Building, Seattle, WA, 2023; Pictured: Akoiya Harris and Marco Leonardo Farroni; photo by Bruce Tom.
Then She Fell at the Kingsland Ward, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2012–2020; Pictured: Marissa Nielsen-Pincus and Tara O’con; photo by Rick Ochoa.
Ikaros at La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival, San Diego, CA, 2019; Pictured: Andrew Broaddus; photo by Jim Carmody.
Confection at The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2019; Pictured: Joshua Dutton-Reaver and Marissa Nielsen-Pincus; photo by Brittany Diliberto.
As Time Goes By at Ziferburg Café, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2016; Pictured: Elena Gradkovskaya and Anna Gorchanuk; photo by Natalya Nikolaeva.
The Grand Paradise in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2016; Pictured: Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Erik Abbott-Main, and Jessy Smith; photo courtesy of the Pekoe Group.
The One You Love is Sick at the Bethanie, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, 2010; Pictured: Rebecca Fung and Charles Au; photo courtesy of the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation.
Vanishing Point at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 2008; Pictured: Donna Ahmadi; photo by Julietta Cervantes.
Poetry
All Published Titles
BOOKS
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Available in paperback and Ebook from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or through your local bookstore (use Ingram ISBN: 978-1-0880-4768-2) | More info at Still, the Sky.
Available in Summer 2023 from Interno Poesia Editore
Available in paperback and Ebook from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or through your local bookstore (use Ingram ISBN: 978-1-0880-5782-7) | More info at The Sandpiper’s Spell.
Tom’s written work has been acknowledged with the Kingsbury Award and the Cody Harris Allen Award for writing from the Florida State University, an Indie Reader Discovery Award, three Reader Views Literary Awards including the Most Innovative Book of Poetry, a Readers’ Favorite Book Award, and inclusion in the Best Books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews. He is the author of two published collections of poetry, The Sandpiper’s Spell and Still, the Sky and has served as the editor of the Public Theater’s Native Theater Journal. His writings on dance and performance have also appeared in Dance Magazine, Time Out New York, Dance Spirit, and others. His creative writing has supported multiple performance works both independently and with Third Rail Projects and the Global Performance Studio.
Art
Multi-media Visual Art & More
SELECTED VISUAL ART, RESIDENCIES, & EXHIBITIONS
Online Polaroid Series
Ace Hotel New York. 2019.
Art Installation and virtual reality demo created during residencies at Olin College of Engineering and Ace Hotel New York, part of the published volume, Still, the Sky and Eppure, Il Cielo (forthcoming).
Bogliasco Fellowship
Libraría
Back Apartment Residency
Link coming soon…
Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter
More at Third Rail Projects…
Film
Streaming & Downloadable
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING
Rent or Purchase
More info at The Night Garden | Streaming on Vimeo (Rent $2.99 / Buy $9.99 Buy)
Through a cartography of associations, imagery, and poetry, The Night Garden offers a harvest of ideas, images, and meditations for the dream feast. (Short Experimental/Mobile Film, 28:00 min.). Recipient of over 25 awards and nominations at more than 50 film festivals worldwide. (Experimental Short Film, 28:00 min.). View on IMDB.
More info at Between Yourself and Me | Streaming on Vimeo & Amazon (Rent $2.99 / Buy $9.99 Buy)
A look inside the flourishing, intimate world of experiential performance and immersive theater, through the creative process of one of the form's top innovators, Third Rail Projects—including their long-running hit Then She Fell, and featuring interviews with artists, critics, and producers. A Co-production of Dance Films Association and Third Rail Projects. (Documentary Short Film, 27:00 min.).
More info at Passaggio | Streaming on Vimeo (Rent $1.99 / Buy $4.99 Buy)
Passaggio (2019), is a short film by Tom Pearson, featuring Marta Luné and with music by Meiko’s Starlight Orchestra. The film is part of a suite of multi-media offerings (including performances of "Ikaros," multi-media art from "Stanzas," installation art and virtual reality from "Archives of Asterion," and the collection of poetry "Still, the Sky/Eppure, Il Cielo") by Tom Pearson—all dealing with concepts of exile and imprisonment, escape and reckoning. Shot on iPhone 6 in Liguria, Italy. "There are four ways to go: up, down, slowly, or/By surprise, a spiral of intestine laid/Out like a tunnel, knotted bed linens tied/To a window gate.” – from Still, the Sky (Experimental Short Film, 5:39 min.).
More info a As Time Goes By | Streaming on Vimeo (Rent $2.99 / Buy $9.99 Buy)
As Time Goes By (2016) was the inaugural project of the Global Performance Studio. For one-month, U.S. and Russian-based artists met in St. Petersburg to share methodologies and practices for devising movement-based theater within site-specific and immersive formats which resulted in the first ever performances of contemporary immersive theater in Russia. Collaborators created a new work for the Ziferburg (a time cafe), and offered audiences an invitation into experiential encounters with performers and situations that unfolded throughout the staircases, rooms and hallways. As action occurred throughout the space, a fragmented narrative emerged through repetition, duration and simultaneity, about our relationship to passing time and what it costs us. (Documentary Short Film and Performance Adaptation, 36:00 min.).
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IMMERSIVE.WORLD BY ALL ARTS
Winner of a 2021 64th Annual New York Emmy Award.
VIEW FOR FREE: S1 E3 | FULL EPISODE – Immersive Musical Theater
What makes a musical theater production immersive? Immersive Musical Theater goes behind the scenes of the Off-Broadway musical “Here Lies Love,” created by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, which invites the audience to dance along. It also explores Broadway’s “The Great Comet of 1812” and showcases Third Rail Projects, which has produced over 40 immersive shows.
AIRED: MARCH 04, 2020 | 0:24:58
IMMERSIVE.WORLD BY ALL ARTS
The One You Love is Sick (2010)
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Documentary, Directed by Zach Morris and Tom Pearson