Tom Pearson is an award-winning American multimedia performance artist, poet, and choreographer whose projects are often site-specific, immersive, and interactive. He is best known for his movement-based theater works as the co-founder/co-artistic director of Third Rail Projects and the director of the Global Performance Studio. Tom’s work combines material culture and audience-centered narratives using theater, art, poetry, film, technology, and choreography to investigate identity and belonging, loss and reclamation, exile and refuge. His artistic inquiries frequently reckon with the complexities of queerness, environmentalism, indigeneity, and social and psychological patterns. His poetry has been described as both “vastly panoramic and deeply personal” (Kirkus Reviews), and his works for theater have been lauded for their ability to craft “dreamscape[s] where the judgments and classifications of the waking mind are inoperative” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times). Tom holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. Awards, commissions, fellowships, and more at tompearsonnyc.com.


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