Thom Jones

FILM/TELEVISION: Coaching for actors/directors: Steven Spielberg (Best Picture and Best Director Oscar nomination for West Side Story), Nicole Kidman (Golden Globe for Best actress, Oscar nomination Best Actress), Jennifer Hudson (Entertainer of the year NAACP win, Sag Award nomination Best Actress), Da'Vine Joy Randolph( Oscar for Best Supporting Actress), Andra Day (Golden Globe for Best Actress, Oscar Nomination for Best Actress), Ariana DuBose (Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress, Sag and BAFTA Best supporting Actress), Rachel Zegler (Golden Globe for Best Actress-Motion picture Comedy or Musical), Javier Bardem (Oscar Nomination Best Actor), Ben Mendelsohn, Natalie Portman, Mike Feist, Will Smith, Sophie Wilde, Harris Dickinson, Sissy Spacek, Lee Daniels, Emma Watson, Alan Rickman, Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams, Forest Whittaker, Rita Moreno, Mark Rylance, Mandy Patinkin, among many others. THEATRE: Public Theater (NYC), New York Shakespeare Festival (Oskar Eustice), Noel Coward Theatre (London's West End), Yale Repertory Company, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Huntington Theatre, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company (18 seasons), Syracuse Stage, Chautauqua Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. TEACHING: Formerly, Head of Voice and Speech for the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company Masters in Acting/Directing, Formerly Head of Voice and Speech at Purchase College Acting Conservatory (Graduate of the class of 1991). Other teaching: Yale School of Drama, NYU, and Case Western University.