Thomas Edward West

He has written the books for I Married Wyatt Earp (co-written with Sheilah Rae), The Enchanted Cottage (lyrics by Alison Hubbard, music by Kim Oler), Tom Sawyer (lyrics by Alison Hubbard), Class Clown (also with Oler and Hubbard), and The Play’s the Thing (also co-lyrics with Robert Waldman). He has had dozens of plays, adaptations and translations produced Off-Broadway and in Regional Theatre, and, with Vincent Sardi, wrote the coffee table book Off The Wall At Sardi's. His lyrics (in French) were heard as an "offstage noise" in The Heiress on Broadway and he has served as "Play Doctor" for The Acting Company and Equity Library Theatre.

He has directed over fifty professional productions, been the Artistic Director of the Asolo Touring Theatre (where he directed productions of Macbeth, his own musical Plain Folk and Wiley and the Hairy Man) Associate Artistic Director of the Asolo Theatre Center (FL) (where he directed Scapino, The School For Wives, and Christopher Durang's A History of the American Film.) He is currently Artistic Director of Ariel Repertory Theatre Company in New York, for which he directed the American premiere of Cheek By Jowl's Vanity Fair. For over 30 years he has performed in his one-man show Mark Twain: Member-at-Large for the Human Race.

Mr. West has taught at Lawrence University, Cedar Crest College, The Asolo/FSU Conservatory, and Queensborough Community College. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild.