Tom is the head of the arts division at Middlesex School, a boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts, where he teaches theater. A graduate of Northwestern University and the American Conservatory Theater, Tom enjoys working with high school students and using theater as a lens to examine the bigger world. When not creating imaginative worlds, Tom enjoys traveling in the actual world. He has led and directed programs with high school students in Oxford, London, Beijing, Paris, Florence, Berlin, Prague, and Vermont. Tom has headed academic programs in Oxford for Putney Student Travel for over twenty-five years and has served as the director of Oxford Academia since its founding.