Tommy Iafrate is a stage director, musical director, arts educator, and musician who is thrilled to engage in these many passions as the Director of Musical Theatre at ßÙßÇÂþ». He has directed and music-directed productions around the world and continues to freelance in these arenas outside academia. Iafrate has served as the producing artistic director of Illinois’ Festival 56, Iowa’s Clinton Area Showboat Theatre, and Rhode Island’s Kaleidoscope Theatre. He has directed, music-directed or performed with Theatre by the Sea, the Barnstormers Theatre, Infinity Theatre Company, the Cider Mill Playhouse, Tri-Cities Opera, Seagle Festival, Thunder Bay Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. His favorite performance experience was touring the United States, Canada, Korea and Japan in Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Cabaret. In 2018, Iafrate was a guest musical theatre director in residence at the Beijing Dance Academy in China and previously toured several cities in that country. As an instrumentalist, he performs on piano, saxophone, clarinet, flute and oboe. He is on the executive committee for the Musical Theatre Educators Alliance and is a proud member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the Golden Key International Honour Society, and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Iafrate is the coordinator of the Musical Theatre Intensive (MTI) for Region 2 of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and serves as music director/mentor for the MTI fellows at the national festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., which he has also attended as a directing fellow through the SDC Directing Initiative. He holds an MFA in directing from Western Illinois University and a BA in musical theatre and in physics from Rhode Island College.
Tommy Iafrate
TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor/Director of Musical Theatre and Undergraduate Program
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Theatre
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