John Thomas

John Thomas is a composer, pianist, music director, actor, photographer, writer and producer. Composer: Pure PolyESTHER: a biblical burlesque (with Boston Theater Offensive's Abe Rybeck); Walt & Oscar's Wilde Weekend; The Vigil Cantata; Camille (New Provincetown Players); The Ash Girl (Cape Cod Community College); Indian Blood (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Second Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater; Abraca o Barco: The Rose Dorothea Story (documentary short film, Provincetown Public Library). Composer/playwright/actor: Spontaneous Me: A Night with Walt Whitman. Composer/actor: TightAss Androgynous: a musical bloodbath (with Joe Byers). Music director: Hair, Cabaret, and Bat Boy The Musical (Provincetown Theatre Company); Streakin' and Lover, Liar, Lady, Whore: The Women of Kander and Ebb (NPP); Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party (C-TEK Arts); Naked Boys Singing (Provincetown 2009); Working (Provincetown Counter Productions). Actor: Manny the pianist in Master Class (Provincetown Repertory Theatre); the Narrator/Pianist in Billy Bishop Goes to War (Gloucester Stage Company); Cosme McMoon, pianist to Florence Foster Jenkins, in Souvenir, and Mashkan, the Viennese vocal coach, in Jon Marans' Old Wicked Songs (Provincetown Counter Productions). Music arranger/pianist: Wendy Kesselman's The Black Monk; Rebecca Alvin's documentary film Women of Faith. Producer/performer: Great Music on Sundays @5 (ptownmusic.com) and Celebration of Life concert (Unitarian-Universalist Meeting House of Provincetown); Sunday Salon (The Provincetown Theater); Monumental Music Series (Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum). Director: Nancy van de Vate's Cocaine Lil (American premiere). Choir director/organist: Christian Union Church (Truro MA). Synthesizer artist: Outer Cape Chorale. Photographer: exhibitions at Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Fine Arts Work Center, and Berta Walker Gallery (Provincetown). Recordings: compact disc of original music titled Composing Myself, available in Provincetown retail stores and at CDbaby.com, iTunes.com, and digstation.com. More information: johnwthomas.com.