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Tom Wholey

Tom Wholey

Gaffer/lighting Technician and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

Member Since:
April 2018
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About Tom

From Pittsburgh, including a stint in a steel mill, Tom graduated from Duquesne University with a degree in Journalism.. He was also a fair hand at basketball, ultimately being on a high level par. Tom began work at WQED PBS Pittsburgh, a network production house, learning studio craft skills. Tom's first professional program was "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." He went on to work "Previn and the Pittsburgh Symphony", "A night with Comden and Green", and won a team Emmy for "Harry S Truman: Plain Speaking. Tom was promoted to writer producer at WQED, running a national White House affiliated program on teenage drug abuse, and seminars on the constitution produced by, Fred Friendly, CBS News President and Edward R Morrow collaborator. He was also a zombie in the original "Dawn of the Dead", and. member of the comedy team "The Flying Zookeni Brothers. Tom moved to Los Angeles to write screenplays, whereupon he, like most, starved for a time. He turned back to his craft work and launched a career in film and television.production which continues to this day. Carrying on his screenwriting ambitions, Tom has created a score of stories which have done quite well in competitions such as Academy Nicholl. Tom has wife, two grown daughters. and two new kittens.

Gender:
Male

Badges

2024-11-05

Double Recommended Screenwriter

2024-11-05

Writers' Room Member

Certifications

Loglines

  • Hizonner

    Hizonner Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy ⋄ Drama Done with corrupt politics, a campaign wunderkind must rescue an old, eccentric mayor, who's losing his race against a sleezebag, and his mind in an extraordinary way

  • Whiskey

    Whiskey Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy To save his destitute Rust Belt town, an aged Yippie schemes to secede from the union, give up quick, then reap American generosity.  But his arch-enemy, an over the hill FBI agent's on it...and the whole world isa watching.

  • A Green Place

    A Green Place Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical In 1892, striking steelworkers, living in squalor, must battle for their rights against an elite upper class, who scheme to insure they stay on top of the world.

  • Infernal

    Infernal Budget: $10M - $30M | Romance ⋄ Comedy After dying in an unearthly SNAFU, and damned wrongly to Hell, two terrible people tour the underworld on as dreadful ducky boat, with its rude, crude, demon captain.  Plotting escape, they connect, and, in a first for Hell...fall in love.

  • Avoiding Intercourse

    Avoiding Intercourse Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy ⋄ Adventure A citified, phobia-ridden father must take charge when a biological weapon peril forces his high-end, bossy wife and troubled teenage daughter from cushy New York City into a wilderness odyssey.

Credits

Awards

  • Emmy (s); Matrix award; Scott Newman Award

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