Tom Gualtieri is a Drama Desk Nominee for That Play: A Solo Macbeth (created with director Heather Hill).
He maintains an ongoing collaboration with composer David Sisco and they have performed together in Sisco’s Bait n’ Swish at Stage Left Studio and in concerts of their work at Feinstein's/54 Below. Music by Gualtieri & Sisco is available at their Sellfy store.
Gualtieri & Sisco are currently producing a video songwriting series, Draw the Circle Wide, intended to raise awareness about diversity and inclusion in musical theatre. Each episode features an interview with a musical performer and a song written just for them. Find out more here.
That Summer: A Fantasia on Family, created with composer Andrea Clearfield, was commissioned by the Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus has been published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Tom has also written two short musicals, The Supper at Elsinore (with Joy Son) and Last Call, My Darling (with William Wade) and provided additional material for Broadway Bares.
As a director, his staging of Daniel MacIvor's His Greatness was a 4-star critic's pick in Time Out. He was the Associate Director on Right You Are for the National Actors Theatre starring Tony Randall, Penny Fuller and Maria Tucci, and for The Night of the Hunter and Sherlock Holmes: The Early Years at NYMF. Also for National Actors Theatre, he assisted writer Abby Mann on the Broadway adaptation of Judgment at Nuremberg with Maximillian Schell, George Grizzard and Marthe Keller.
Tom has acted opposite Joanne Woodward in Hay Fever, Marin Mazzie in South Pacific (choreography by Rob Marshall), and has appeared in Privates on Parade, Dragapella , A Midsummer Nights Dream, Cloud 9.
Tom’s essays have appeared at The Weeklings, The Good Men Project, and Salon.
He is an advanced member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and was trained at Syracuse University.