Coming up
The Thanksgiving Play
Thomas will direct Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play at Clemson University, running November 14—20, 2022. Tickets and more information available at clemson.universitytickets.com.
Recently
South Carolina New Play Festival
Thomas appeared in the inaugural South Carolina New Play Festival as Roger Chillingworth in Kate Hamill's new adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. Check out American Theatre's profile on the Festival.
Appropriate
In June of 2022, Thomas returned to the Warehouse Theatre as Bo in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate, directed by Jay Briggs.
Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle the accounts of their newly-dead patriarch. As his three adult children sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, they collide over clutter, debt, and a contentious family history. But after a disturbing discovery surfaces among their father’s possessions, the reunion takes a turn for the explosive and unleashes crackling surprises, gut-punching honesty, and uproarious confrontations.
WarehouseTheatre.com
Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody
What better way to end the 2021-2022 season than with a laugh? Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody is directed by Blake White, Lean Ensemble Theater’s Artistic Director.
This hilarious result of collaboration between Writers Theatre and Chicago’s world-renowned comedy theatre, The Second City, asks the intriguing question: What happens when the most recognizable characters from some of the greatest American plays of the 20th century suddenly find themselves sharing the same stage?
LeanEnsemble.org
The Thanksgiving Play
In October of 2021, Thomas returned to Lean Ensemble Theater in Hilton Head Island, appearing in Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play, directed by Maggie Kettering.
Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally “woke” teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.
LeanEnsemble.org
This Is Derek
Thomas recently starred in the short “This Is Derek”, part of the Warehouse Theatre’s Long Story Short, written by Paul Grellong (Manuscript, Amazon’s The Boys) and directed by Quinn Xavier Hernandez (assistant director for Warehouse’s Hedwig & the Angry Inch and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson).
We commissioned 9 of the best playwrights working today and asked them to create short pieces specifically for Warehouse actors working with Upstate directors. The result is LONG STORY SHORT: 9 Short Plays From the Longest Year Of Our Lives.
Divided States
The pilot for Divided States won the Best TV Pilot award at the Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival and Circle City Film Festival! Additionally, the pilot was an official selection at Web Series Festival (Nominated, Best Comedy Pilot) and Orlando Film Festival.
After a religious vision convinces him he’s the chosen one to stop the President’s agenda, cash-advance tycoon Teddy Richardson (Thomas Azar), with help from his mischievous nonagenarian grandmother, launches a bid to take over the his local Democratic Party chapter, much to the consternation of his wife and friends.