Thomas P. Swetz

Owner/Office Manager

Lighting &Sound Design

Scene Design

Tech Director

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Tom has been an entertainer performing throughout the Tri-state area for the last 40 years. He attended Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx as a Theater Major and graduated Summa Cum Laude from WCSU in Danbury, CT with a BA in Theater Arts performance option.  He also holds an MFA in Theatre Arts Technical Direction thru the University of Idaho.  Tom is the Theatre Production Coordinator/Technical Director/Shop Supervisor at Western Connecticut State University.  He was the Production Manager/Technical Director for ACT of Connecticut in Ridgefield, CT, a regional theater.   He has worked as part of the Adjunct Faculty at WCSU as one of the Technical Directors/Production Manager.  He has also been the Technical Director for Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, CT.  His training is varied from voice and acting to dance, stage combat, makeup, scene design and construction, lighting and sound design, magic and juggling.  He has had the privilege of training with B. H. Barry, Joe Travers, Nathan DeCoux, Ian Rose, and Brad Lemon for Stage combat, Doug Bischoff of Youth On The Move, Thom Houser, and Janelle Robinson for Voice, performing illusions by Franz Harary, and performing for both Ron Howard and Robin Williams.  Most recently, Tom has worked on the Harrison Ford movie, Morning Glory, appeared in an episode of MERCY, and the Showtime series The Big C.  Tom spent three years performing for Hershey Park, two with Allan Albert Productions and the third was a magical, musical, pirate show he wrote, produced and performed with Jackie, his wife of 30 years.  He has performed the lead roles in Godspell (Jesus/Stephen), Pippin (Pippin/Magic Consultant), and Oklahoma (Curly), as well as supporting roles in Geography of a Horse Dreamer, West Side Story (Snowboy), Hello Dolly (Barnaby), Grease (Roger), and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Simeon), both on the Community as well as the Regional Theater Level.    His performances have taken him throughout the area, from New York to Pennsylvania to Germany and back.  He has performed for Actor’s Conservatory Theater, IBM, Westchester Medical Center, Blythedale Children's Hospital, Hudson Valley Credit Union, Hershey Park, Chevrolet, The Star of the North Games, Beekman Recreation Department, Poughkeepsie Recreation, the Towns of Millbrook, Dover, and Pawling, Ann’s Place, Arlington School District, German American Society in Peekskill, The Scottish Society, Play and Learn, Trinity Pre-school, Natural Wonders, and Traumland Park in Germany.   Tom is a member of the SAFD (Society of American Fight Directors), SAM (Society of American Magicians),  NYSTEA (New York State Theater Educators Association),  (United States Institute of Theatre Technology), USITT (Unite States Institute for Theatre Technology) and The ESA (event Safety Alliance)

 He is also the proud father of two very talented young men, TJ who is one of our teachers as well as a high school choir teacher for Newburgh Free Academy and Brandon, who is a Medical Assistant for Partners in Safety.