Tom Pearson

Tom Pearson (Co-Artistic Director, Third Rail Projects) is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer, director, designer, performer, and visual artist. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Florida State University School of Dance and has choreographed, performed, lectured and taught for more than a decade in New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and others. He is also a writer whose work has been published in Dance Magazine, Time Out New York Kids, Dance Spirit and through the Public Theater’s Native Theater Journal and interviews for NYU's Hemispheric Institute. Tom holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. He is co-creator of the smash Off-Broadway hit, Then She Fell (2012), and his work has been commissioned by Danspace Project, Lincoln Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, among many others.