Team Bios
Tom Gualtieri is a playwright, lyricist, actor and director. Current musical projects, for which he is writing book and lyrics are Falling to Earth, a re-telling of Ovid’s version of the Pygmalion & Galatea myth, and an adaptation of The Heiress, both with composer David Sisco. He has written two short musicals, The Supper at Elsinore (with Joy Son) and Last Call, My Darling (with William Wade for Raw Impressions #18) as well as the plays Me...and Medea, Casa Blanche or the Cruel Kind, The Garden of the Earth (about The Donner Party tragedy) and That Play, his solo Macbeth which was been performed at the Midtown Theatre Festival, The Belt Theatre and Ithaca’s The Kitchen Theatre. Tom was Head Writer for the 50th Anniversary Drama Desk Awards (2004), penning material for Harvey Fierstein and a variety of other stars. He was the assistant director on Right You Are for the National Actors Theatre starring Tony Randall, Penny Fuller and Maria Tucci. As an actor, Tom has played 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, The Rivals, Cloud 9. He is a proud original cast member of Off-Broadway’s Naked Boys Singing, having written and directed 7 of their popular skits for various BC/EFA benefits (appearing twice as Mrs. Anna). He has also provided additional material for two Broadway Bares events.
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David Sisco is the author of Here I Am: A Musical Personal Ad, which was the recipient of the Alex Libby Award for Best Musical Performance at the 2002 Columbus National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival. Other shows include Variations on a Theme of You, Sopranos (featured at the 2002 NYC International Fringe Festival), a one-act opera called The Catbird Seat, and a one-act play called BAIT, which will be featured at the 2006 Columbus festival. Mr. Sisco is also a prolific art song composer, and has received a stipend from the National Endowment for the Advancement of Arts to present a recital of his music at the prestigious Liederkranz Club in New York. His songs are currently published through Classical Vocal Reprints. As a singer, David is much sought after. The Boston Herald praised his performance of the AIDS Quilt Song Book, saying he sang with “heart-breaking sincerity.” Mr. Sisco has served on the faculties at Northeastern and Suffolk University, teaching voice and musical theater performance. David received his BA in vocal performance and composition honors from Syracuse University, and a MM in vocal performance at Boston University School for the Arts.
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