Tom Beyer

Tom Beyer won a prestigious Ovation Award in Los Angeles for his stage performance at the Mark Taper Forum in The Cider House Rules directed by Tom Hulce and adapted by Peter Parnell He starred opposite Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at Reprise in Los Angeles Jillian Armenante directed him in the premiere of her farce In Flagrante Gothicto in which he portrayed a 12yearold french girl Garland Award Best Ensemble in a Comedy He is an awardwinning theatre director and has received critical acclaim for his stage adaptations of classical works such as The Canterbury Tales He acted on many stages in Seattle where he also produced and acted in an awardwinning production of Holy Days written by Sally Nemeth and spent three years as a company member of Seattles BookIt Repertory Theatre adapting literature into theatre After a brief stint in his New York homeland he moved to Los Angeles for The Cider House Rules and shortly thereafter was directed by Roger Rees in Shakespeares The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego Tom is also a tapdancer a rusty classical organist a dabbler on the piano a marathon runner and has a purple belt in Karate