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[[Category:Performers|Booker]]
{{Infobox Performer
[[Category:Directors|Booker]]
|Name = Tom Booker
TOM BOOKER has studied improvisation and sketch at The Second City Training Center and with legendary improv guru Del Close at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic. He is a founding member of Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre and has been a director and instructor at The Second City Training Center in Los Angeles.
|Picture = Tom Booker Pic.jpg
|Theater= [[The Institution Theater]]
|Years = 2008-Present
}}
 
'''Tom Booker''' is an improv performer and director.  He co-runs [[The Institution Theater]].
 
== Summary ==
Tom Booker has studied improvisation and sketch at The Second City Training Center and with legendary improv guru Del Close at Chicago's ImprovOlympic. He is a founding member of Chicago's Annoyance Theatre and has been a director and instructor at The Second City Training Center in Los Angeles.


Tom co-wrote and co-directed (with producing partner Jon Kean) the feature film Kill The Man starring Luke Wilson, which premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Through Theatre-A-Go-Go!, the L.A. theater company he founded, Tom wrote and directed “Patty, Patty, BANG! BANG! – The Patty Hearst Musical!and “Up With Puberty!(co-written with Whose Line Is It Anyway?’s musical director, Laura Hall), and a stage production of Valley Of The Dolls (which starred Kate Flannery of The Office) at New York’s Circle In The Square Theater.
Tom co-wrote and co-directed (with producing partner Jon Kean) the feature film Kill The Man starring Luke Wilson, which premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Through Theatre-A-Go-Go!, the L.A. theater company he founded, Tom wrote and directed "Patty, Patty, BANG! BANG! – The Patty Hearst Musical!" and "Up With Puberty!" (co-written with ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'''s musical director, Laura Hall), and a stage production of ''Valley Of The Dolls'' (which starred Kate Flannery of ''The Office'') at New York's Circle In The Square Theater.


Tom performed in The Annoyance Theatre’s Off-Broadway production of “The Real Live Brady Bunch” at the world famous Village Gate Theatre and at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles.
Tom performed in The Annoyance Theatre's Off-Broadway production of "The Real Live Brady Bunch" at the world famous Village Gate Theatre and at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles.


He has appeared in several television shows, a few movies and nearly a hundred commercials.
He has appeared in several television shows, a few movies and nearly a hundred commercials.


He’s a really nice guy. You should meet him.
He's a really nice guy. You should meet him.
 
== Troupes ==
* [[Baxter and Bernard]]
* [[Confidence Men]]
 
== Shows ==
* ''[[Bad Girls in Plaid Skirts]]'' (writer, director, performer [The Bishop])
* ''[[Fuck It's Christmas]]'' (director, performer)
* ''[[Fuck It's Hot]]'' (director)
* ''[[Live TV Tuesdays: Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' (director)
* ''[[Live TV Tuesdays: John Hughes Summer School]]'' (director)
* ''[[Live TV Tuesdays: My So-Called Life]]'' (director)
* ''[[Live TV Tuesdays: Saved by the Bell]]'' (director)
* ''[[Manson: The Musical]]'' (director/Vincent Bugliosi)
* ''[[Mister Morbid's Moonlight Movie Mayhem Madness Massacre]]''
* ''[[Pulp Friction]]'' (director)
* ''[[Thinning the Herd]]''
 
== Media ==
=== Photos ===
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.608955025839847.1073741867.118587218209966&type=3 Photoset] by [[Roy Moore]] of Tom Booker's 50th Birthday Show.
 
== More Information ==
* [http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/thetheftforum/id/2424971 Interview] with Tom on ''[[The Theft Forum]]''.
* [http://yesandrew.com/2014/06/22/the-sunday-interview-tom-booker/ Interview] by [[Andrew Buck]].
 
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Latest revision as of 10:48, 18 February 2016


Tom Booker

Tom Booker Pic.jpg

Primary Theater The Institution Theater
Years Active 2008-Present

Tom Booker is an improv performer and director. He co-runs The Institution Theater.

Summary

Tom Booker has studied improvisation and sketch at The Second City Training Center and with legendary improv guru Del Close at Chicago's ImprovOlympic. He is a founding member of Chicago's Annoyance Theatre and has been a director and instructor at The Second City Training Center in Los Angeles.

Tom co-wrote and co-directed (with producing partner Jon Kean) the feature film Kill The Man starring Luke Wilson, which premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Through Theatre-A-Go-Go!, the L.A. theater company he founded, Tom wrote and directed "Patty, Patty, BANG! BANG! – The Patty Hearst Musical!" and "Up With Puberty!" (co-written with Whose Line Is It Anyway?'s musical director, Laura Hall), and a stage production of Valley Of The Dolls (which starred Kate Flannery of The Office) at New York's Circle In The Square Theater.

Tom performed in The Annoyance Theatre's Off-Broadway production of "The Real Live Brady Bunch" at the world famous Village Gate Theatre and at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles.

He has appeared in several television shows, a few movies and nearly a hundred commercials.

He's a really nice guy. You should meet him.

Troupes

Shows

Media

Photos

More Information