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BIO
FAIR AND DECENT
MANDALA
TOM DIGGS has been produced at major regional theatres including East/ West Players, Intiman Theatre, The Seattle Rep, and Moving Arts (L.A.). His play, Harper Lee’s Husband, was a part of the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, The Vital Theatre’s Vital Signs, and was a finalist for a Samuel French Award. Five Wishes was part of Theatre Masters both in Aspen and at the Atlantic 2. Nu Shu, was part of the Kennedy Center’s New Works Festival. The libretto for The Fairy Hoax won the Aurand Harris Award at NETC and was developed at PlayWorks, The Workshop Theatre, and TRU in NYC. The Kennedy Center and The National New Play Network commissioned Fair and Decent, a play about the demise of The Fairness Doctrine. Fair and Decent opened the 2007-2008 Luna Stage season in October, and it was nominated for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His play Mandala has been developed by The Lark and The Kennedy Center and was given a workshop at The Three Jewels. In the summer of 2009 Love in the Time of Reagan was developed in New York City with a Bridgeworks/id theatre reading, a Lark Roundtable Reading, and a reading with 24Seven Lab. Milo at the Movies has been developed at Seven Devils Playwriting Conference, Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals, Phoenix Theatre, and Aurora Theatre Company. Tom graduated from NYU’s Tisch of the Arts in 2007. He was named a Dramatists Guild Fellow for 2007-2008 and has been a member of the BMI Lyricists Workshop.
PLAYS
KIND SOULS
How do we bear the unbearable?
KIND SOULS is a powerful new play about a young couple trying to survive incredibly challenging times with their souls intact.
Conceived as a dystopian fairy tale, KIND SOULS is the story of Tara and Oliver, a poor-but-kind couple, reduced to eating dirt to stay alive during wartime. When a job-creating industry comes to town, they must confront the price they’re willing to pay for survival and personal comfort - while the world is falling apart around them. Their relationship gets tested in this powerful and gut-wrenching examination of a marriage under pressure.
Lincoln Center and Broadway Associate Director Alexander Greenfield helms an award-winning team of rising Broadway talent, starring Lindsey Kyler and John Clarence Stewart. The up-and-coming Libra Theater is mounting the show in a limited run at Theatre 54 one block off Broadway, Jan. 16-Feb. 1, 2015.
In the end, KIND SOULS is a play about us: a country of kind souls trying to survive in wartime, trying to bear the unbearable while trying to maintain our values of hope, love, and compassion.