Tom was awarded a Teaching Fellowship in fiction writing in 1988 at Boston University's prestigious Graduate Creative Writing Program. Tom went on to apprentice under Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott for over ten years as Managing Director of The Boston Playwrights' Theater. He has won awards for theater production and playwriting in Boston and New York, and was recently a finalist in the Austin, Texas Songwriting Competition. His work has been seen at the Naked Angels Theater in New York, The Boston Playwrights' Theater and the Lansdowne Street Playhouse in Boston, The IT Players in Davenport, Io...