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"And while
we're on the subject of screaming superlatives, is there anything
Tom Key can't do on a stage?" Dan Hulbert, Atlanta
Journal Constitution
Tom
Key has
been, since 1995, Executive Artistic Director of the acclaimed
Theatrical Outfit at The Balzer Theater at Herren’s in
downtown Atlanta, a professional company giving dramatic voice
to the themes of spirituality, race and community in the American
South. As a solo performer, Tom Key has been in demand across
North America for three decades, including appearances at
The Lambs Theater off-Broadway, The John F. Kennedy Center
of Washington D.C., The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas
Theater Center, The Westwood Playhouse of Los Angeles, The
Alliance Theater, Harvard and Yale Universities as well as
Oxford University of England. He is well known as the actor
and creator of the off-Broadway musical hit Cotton Patch
Gospel—“Turns a whimsical Bible Story into an
exuberant country western hoedown.” (Mel Gussow The
New York Times). He has been featured in the award winning
television series In the Heat of the Night and I’ll
Fly Away, as well as the Mirimax Family Films Gordy,
and The Adventures of Ociee Nash. For his performances,
direction, or script adaptations based on works including
Leonard Bernstein, Harry Chapin, Truman Capote, Saint John,
Clarence Jordan, CS Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Walker
Percy, Hank Williams and Tennessee Williams, he has won critical
praise from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times,
The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Dallas Morning
News, The Boston Herald, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Most recently he directed the critically acclaimed world premiere
at Theatrical Outfit of Thomas Ward’s Keeping Watch.
Key’s dynamic as a performing artist has been described
in the Atlanta publication, Creative Loafing, as: “An
actor with such energy that even standing still, he seems
to quiver like a divining rod.”.
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