Thomas J Cox

THOMAS J COX has been with Lookingglass since its inception in 1988, and has worked on more than thirty productions, including West, The Jungle, The Odyssey, Arabian Nights, The Master and Margarita, They All Fall Down, Summertime, Great Men of Science, as Algren in Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day (which went on to be adapted for television in an Emmy-nominated co-production with WTTW), as Winston in 1984, as Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop (Jeff Nomination), and most recently in Our Town, Black Diamond and Lookingglass Alice. He currently serves Lookingglass' Education and Community Program as Master Teacher. In other Chicago theatre, Thom has appeared at the Illinois Theatre Center, Victory Gardens, Northlight, Court, and Steppenwolf Theatres. He has directed for Eclipse, Piven Theatre Workshop, and his own Jeff-nominated adaptation of The Scarlet Letter for Lookingglass. During the summers, he and his wife, stage manager Chris Freeburg, work at the Weston Playhouse Theatre in Vermont, where he has appeared in productions ranging from Chicago, Oklahoma!, and Urinetown, to Tartuffe and Blithe Spirit, among many. Additionally for the Playhouse, he serves as Co-Director of their Young Company, in which capacity he has directed two musical productions. He has also taught at Northwestern University as an adjunct faculty member. Film/television: Since You've Been Gone (Miramax), Chi-Girl , Brotherhood (Showtime). He and his wife live happily in Andersonville with their daughter, Joan Marie, and three cats, Bonnie, Max, and Hanna.