Tom Gilroy is an American director, writer, actor, producer, playwright, poet, musician, and teacher.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Gilroy has written, directed and produced five films, including the award-winning short Touch Base and the critically acclaimed feature Spring Forward.[7] 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,[8] most recently the multi-media production of Hamlet for the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival.[3] Gilroy is also a published haiku poet, having authored the haiku year[9] and Haiku, Not Bombs[10] 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.[11] He has performed as a musician on tracks by Stipe, Mark Mulcahy, Dub Gabriel, and Ariel Aparicio, whose album Aerials he produced.[12]