Tom Gilroy

Acting · Directing · Writing

Born August 7, 1960, Jamaica

Tom Gilroy is an American director, writer, actor, producer, playwright, poet, musician, and teacher. Gilroy has written, directed and produced five films, including the award-winning short Touch Base and the critically acclaimed feature Spring Forward. He has appeared in over 20 television shows and 30 films. With his theatre company Machine Full, Gilroy has produced over a dozen critically acclaimed productions, most recently the multi-media production of Hamlet for the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Gilroy is also a published haiku poet, having authored the haiku year and Haiku, Not Bombs among others. Gilroy has collaborated with Michael Stipe on several projects, including "Everything’s Coming Undone," for the compilation album Ciao My Shining Star, The Songs of Mark Mulcahy. He has performed as a musician on tracks by Stipe, Mark Mulcahy, Dub Gabriel, and Ariel Aparicio, whose album Aerials he produced. Gilroy has also taught as a professor at Columbia University and Davidson College. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

• 2016Tom's Dilemma — Mr. Jacobson
• 2015Houses
• 2015The World Made Straight — Mr. Anderson
• 2013The Cold Lands — Tom, Director, Screenplay
• 2008Dream Boy — Preacher John
• 2008The Blue Tooth Virgin — Louis
• Damages — Director
• 2006Wild Tigers I Have Known — The Principal
• 2005Shooting Vegetarians — Bailliff
• 2005Sweet Land — Comrade Vik
• 2004Everyday People — Erin's Professor
• 2004Harry and Max — Josiah
• 100 Centre Street — Mitchell Fox
• 2001Series 7 — Dawn's Cameraman
• 2000Bread and Roses — Director of Campaigns
• 2000Spring Forward — Director, Writer
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Cal Oman
• 1999On the Run — Tom
• Third Watch — Deranged Shooter
• 1998Claire Dolan — Client #3/$1000 Trick
• 1998Inside/Out — David Sheppard
• 1998Lulu on the Bridge — Restaurant Man #1
• Sex and the City — Tom
• 1998Spark — Jack
• 1997Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Boots — Bar Voice (voice)
• 1997Vicious Circles — Morton
• 1996Girls Town — Richard Helms
• 1996Ratchet — Elliot Callahan
• 1995Land and Freedom — Lawrence
• 1995Postcards from America — Adult David's Friend
• 1994Touch Base — Writer, Director
• 1991A Matter of Degrees — The Scuzz
• Law & Order — Eric Johnson
• Monsters — Nelson
• 1987Arena Brains — Artist