Tom Gilroy

Tom Gilroy is an American director, writer, actor, producer, playwright, poet, musician, and teacher. 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. 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.

Career

Directing Tom Gilroy has written, directed and produced five films. Among them are three shorts, the award-winning Touch Base, Mr. Sycamore, and It Happened Today, his most recent collaboration with R.E.M.

He has also written and directed the critically lauded feature Spring Forward, starring Liev Schreiber, Ned Beatty, and Campbell Scott. His most recent feature film as writer/director is The Cold Lands, starring Lili Taylor, which premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2013. The film also featured a book of photography and haiku, entitled Somebody Else’s Nowhere: Haiku and Images from The Cold Lands.

Gilroy is currently developing another feature-length film entitled Our Lady of the Snow, which recently won the prestigious San Francisco Film Society/KRF Grant and received fellowships from the Djerassi and McDowell colonies. His other works include Sugar Cane and Coffee Cup, Collateral Damage, American Lesion, Witch’s Tit, and The Invisible Hand.

In 2005 he directed Rosie Perez, Robert Sean Leonard, Natasha Lyonne, and Mary-Louise Parker in the play Nine Ten for the 24 Hour play project. and Somebody Else’s Nowhere, and a two-time Sundance Lab Fellow. He has also received the 2015 Kenneth Rainin Screenwriting Grant from the San Francisco Film Society and the Esteemed McGee Chair for Filmmaking at Davidson College. Gilroy also won the 2015 Djerassi Residency Award from the San Francisco Film Society.

Filmography

Film

Television