TOM SWIFT is a playwright, producer and financial planner.
He is a four-time PlayGround Emerging Playwrights Award winner, a PlayGround Fellowship recipient and a past PlayGround Resident Playwright. His full-length play, A Marriage, received a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Award in 2021. His short play My Name Is Yin was a winner of the 2011 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, the oldest short-play festival in the United States.
A Marriage, a PlayGround Commission, is based on his successful short play, The Beginning. He wrote and produced a film of The Beginning for the Inaugural PlayGround Film Festival, where it received The People’s Choice Award. It has been featured in film festivals around the world, receiving the 2013 Emerging Film Award from the 18th Annual North...
TOM SWIFT is a playwright, producer and financial planner.
He is a four-time PlayGround Emerging Playwrights Award winner, a PlayGround Fellowship recipient and a past PlayGround Resident Playwright. His full-length play, A Marriage, received a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Award in 2021. His short play My Name Is Yin was a winner of the 2011 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, the oldest short-play festival in the United States.
A Marriage, a PlayGround Commission, is based on his successful short play, The Beginning. He wrote and produced a film of The Beginning for the Inaugural PlayGround Film Festival, where it received The People’s Choice Award. It has been featured in film festivals around the world, receiving the 2013 Emerging Film Award from the 18th Annual North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
During the pandemic, A Marriage received further development from TheatreFirst, in Berkeley, CA. An additional workshop of A Marriage was produced by TheatreFirst in February of 2023
Mr. Swift currently serves as Captain of the Financial Avengers, a Registered Investment Advisory firm that he founded with his sidekick, The Oracle. He is working on a book and one-man show, The Rules of the Financial Avengers: Winning the Fight for Financial Freedom in Post-War, Post-Pandemic America. He is also adapting an evening of John Cheever Short Stories (The Death of Justina and The Country Husband).
He graduated from Northwestern University in 1984 with a degree in acting. In past lives he's toured the nation's prisons with Geese Theater Company, worked as a political organizer fighting AIDS during the Reagan era and served as General Manager of Brush Creek Media (a purveyor of fine adult gay male pornography). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
In his spare time he likes to garden, cook, construct mobiles and hang out with his best friend, Lucky the Wonder Dog. He also maintains a popular and anonymous blog, where he works diligently to revive the lost art of written-word gay male erotica.