Tom Bentley-Fisher
Theatre Director	Writer	Master Teacher
Tom Bentley-Fisher is an award winning theatre director, teacher and writer. He has worked throughout Canada, the United States and Europe for over thirty years. He has directed over one hundred productions, taught at numerous universities and theatre schools, and served as the artistic director of five professional theatres. During Tom’s tenure as an artistic director in Canada he gained a strong reputation for developing and producing original plays. He is the founder and producer of several theatre festivals, including the Saskatoon International Fringe. In Canada he is best known for his twelve year tenure as artistic director of Twenty-fifth Street Theatre. Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, credited his leadership of this theatre as having engineered “one of the most dramatic come-backs in Canadian theatre history.”    From 2002 to 2009 Tom lived in San Francisco where he concentrated on writing, conducting his own acting studio, and working as a dramaturge and director for many Bay Area theatres, including Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre where he produced the Global Age Project, the theatre’s new play development program. During this time, Tom’s fiction was published in literary magazines both in the U.S. and Canada. His first collection of short stories was published by Thistledown Press. He has been the finalist for several literary awards, has written three produced plays, and is currently completing a novel and a book based on the acting technique he developed during his time teaching in California.   In 2009 he spent five months in Barcelona creating and directing a critically acclaimed all-female version of The Iliad for Q-ars Teatre, produced for the prestigious Grec 09 International Festival of Barcelona. Presently Tom divides his time between Barcelona and Saskatoon, where he is the artistic director of Tant per Tant, an international theatre company dedicated to the translation and production of Canadian and Catalan plays. Upcoming projects include directing a San Francisco production Oooo!, by Gerard Vàzquez, a Canadian premiere of 16,000 Pessetes, by Manel Veiga, and producing The Catalan Connection, a two-year exchange program of plays between Spain and Canada. Tom also continues to conduct ongoing master classes on both sides of the Atlantic.
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