Tom holds a BFA in Musical Theatre.  Aside from being a performer, he is a composer, writer, teacher and musical director.  His musical “Ain’t Missin’ Dinner!” has been performed in NYC and regionally. Tom has worked extensively in cabarets in New York City. His solo cabaret act “Fun and Games” was chosen as a top ten cabaret act the year it was performed. 

 He is director and owner of The Dickens Victorian Carollers, www.Carollers.com.  He has been invited to sing, with his group at the White House for Four Administrations, The Reagan’s, Bush’s,  Clinton’s and just last Christmas 2009 at President and Mrs. Obama’s first Christmas in The White House.  

He was Musical Director of the original production  of “Hiroshima” (music by Yoko Ono) which won the Kennedy Center Award for Best American Play 1997. 

 He is a founding member, and on the board of directors of The Oxford-Shakespeare Theatre, www.osctheatre.org.   He is happy to have been musical director and teacher for the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped for three years. Tom lives in New York City. He is currently on the staff at two Performing Arts Schools in the New York Area. 

Tom is also a playwright. His Spoon River Project is performed regionally. It is Tom’s original adaptation of The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.  It is a theatre piece with music. It is written to be performed outdoors at night in a cemetery.   It will have it’s New York City Premier this coming summer, June 2011, at the historic Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Tom is currently teaching at Brooklyn College in it’s Preparatory Center, where he teaches classes in Musical Theatre, Cabaret Performance, Acting and has a private voice studio.  

                                                        www.bcprepcenter.org  

                Tom Andolora is a proud member of the NYS Singing Teachers Association

He has also spent the last fourteen summers teaching Musical Theatre Workshops for high school students in Chautauqua, New York.