American Film & Theater "What Society and Psychiatry commonly consider Normal is the repression of Normal Emotions . . . . As a Dramatist, I assume the task of removing my own mask in order to reveal Our Commonality

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The American Academy of Dramatic Arts 120 Madison Avenue  - New York City presents An Epitaph for George Dillon starring Elaine Frater and Tom Blaise (as George) A Showcase Production     ~   The Mary MacArthur Theater   ~   December 20th 1964  8 p.m. view playbill here .

The Missouri Boys by Tom Blaise

The Man With The Flower In His Mouth a one-act play - a monologue of sorts - written by Luigi Pirandello setting: a bar room late at night - a man who is dying of epithelioma, with little time left to live, intensely engages a stranger, who is quietly sitting alone at a table, in a one-way dialogue about his paranoiac plight, staged live on campus at University of Oklahoma School of Fine Arts in Norman, fall 1966, starring Tom Blaise as The Man.

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"Under the Yum Yum Tree" a comedy in three acts Howard de Wolfe, Producer International Dinner Theatres, Inc. The Barn Dinner Theaters Greensboro, N.C. July 1965 Marietta, Ga. August 1965 Tom Blaise as Dave Manning Acting Coach Ruth Foreman _____

The Actor's Studio

The James Dean Story February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955 "violent people are weak people, only the gentle are really strong" Rebel For All Seasons

The Richard Widmark Story The Alamo ~ Kiss of Death ~ Cobweb ~ Don't Bother To Knock ~ ~ western performers hall of fame ~

The Jim Morrison Story

The Brad Pitt Story

New York ~ New York

Royalty-Free One-Act Playsm on-line viewing ~ no membership required 80 one-act plays by Eugene O'Neil, Strindberg, Chekhov, Robert Frost, Shakespeare & others

The Actor's Humanist Chapel