Tom Misuraca studied writing at Emerson College in Boston. Over fifty of his one-act plays have been produced in theaters all over the world. Four of his full-lengths were produced in Southern California: Geeks! The Musical, The ParaAbnormals, Edgar and Tenants. Geeks! went on to be produced Off-Off Broadway and San Diego. This year, Tom won two writing awards: The Pickering Award for his old-age superhero play, Golden Age; and the Las Vegas Little Theatre New Works award for Little Black Book. He is a member or the Los Angeles Alliance of Playwrights, FirstStage L.A. and The Dramatist Guild.
Las Vegas Little Theatre New Works Award for "Little Black Book"
(2014)
The Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwrighting Excellence for "Golden Age"
(2014)
"Last Words" 3rd Place Audience Favorite at Stage Door Productions' 7 th Annual Original One Act Play Festival
(2014)
“Table for One” winner Best Play at week three of the North Park Playwright Festival
(2013)
"Haunted" 1st Place Audience Favorite at Secret Rose Theatre's MonoSlam
(2012)
McKinney Repertory Theatre's 2012-13 New Play Competition for "Golden Age"
(2012)
"No Problem" 1st Place Audience Favorite at Tehachapi Community Theatre’s Third Annual 10-Minute Play Festival
(2011)
"For Whom the Speed Dating Bell Tolls" 1st Place Audience Favorite at Secret Rose Theatre's MonoSlam
(2011)
“Manservant 3000” won the Lebanon Community Theatre Playwriting contest
(2011)
“Camp Soggy Lake" 3rd Place Audience Favorite at Youth Education on Stage’s Summer Shorts 6
(2011)
"Manservant 3000" 2nd Place Audience Favorite at Three Rose Players’ The Writer Speaks
(2011)
“Edgar” finalist in Heiress Productions’ Playwriting Contest
(2011)
“Pie Us!” 3rd Place Audience Favorite at Tehachapi Community Theatre’s Second Annual 10-Minute Play Festival
(2010)
“Communication” 2nd Place Audience Favorite at PianoFights’s ShortLived 3.0
(2010)
“Falling Bodies” 1st Place Audience Favorite at Bellarmine University Theater’s “Anything Galileo” Vestival
(2010)
"Offender” 2nd Place Audience Favorite at Tehachapi Community Theatre’s First Annual 10-Minute Play Festival
(2009)
Emerson College
(1987-1991)