Thom Babbes
Director • Writer
Upcoming production
THESE SHINING LIVES by Melanie Marnich
Directed by Thom Babbes
Actors Co-op
1760 N. Gower Street • Hollywood CA
Opens February 21, 2025
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
Art
A Man For All Seasons
The Human Comedy
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The Human Comedy
A Man For All Seasons
The Human Comedy
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Writer/Director Thom Babbes gets it. There is such passion coming out of this show...grand storytelling with heart. There are multiple sequences that made me jump out of my seat--so wildly creative.
Patrick Chavis - LA Theatre Bites
Babbes' staging is assured and often masterly.
F. Kathleen Foley -Stage Raw
Magical...inspired direction.
Steven Stanley - Stage Scene LA
A Man For All Seasons
A Man For All Seasons
A Man For All Seasons
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Under Thom Babbes excellent direction, Actors Co-op's ensemble are sterling from top to bottom.
Don Grigware -BroadwayWorld.com
Director Thom Babbes keeps the action brisk...The Actors Co-op production of A Man for All Seasons is absorbing, thrilling theatre, that packs an emotional punch exactly when it should.
Paul Myrvold's Theatre Notes
Summer and Smoke
The Miracle Worker
A Man For All Seasons
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Director Thom Babbes unearths the mercurial yet specific qualities that make “Smoke” a masterwork...”
Indeed, one would likely need to travel back to the legendary José Quintero-helmed 1952 Circle in the Square production that launched Geraldine Page and the Off-Broadway movement to find such vivid embodiment of subtext.
David C Nichols – Los Angeles Times
Ah, Wilderness!
The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker
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Thom Babbes directs an ornate, delightfully intimate production, with loving period detail. Steven Leigh Morris - LA Weekly
Thom Babbes does a superb job of directing this deceptively complex work. Babbes puts on a great, sweet-hearted show that doesn’t drip with sentimentality.
Jesse David Corti – Stage and Cinema.com
The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker
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The innovative staging by director Thom Babbes and outstanding talent in this production deserve to play to full houses throughout the run! I have seen many productions of this play but have never before heard such laughter (and tears) from an audience in all the right places, a true testament to the acting skill of the cast.
Shari Barrett - BroadwayWorld.com
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
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Director Thom Babbes maintains firm control…The celebrated darkened-stage denouement culminates in a great big audience scream, proving that this Wait Until Dark achieves the desired objective.
David Nichols - IN LA Magazine
Thom Babbes' gift for directing is most evident in the show's casting of Lisa Renee Pitts, an African-American, as Susy. This lends an interesting subtext to the proceedings.
Ben Miles - SUN
Directing Youth
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
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Helping teens find their artistic voice and leading them to strive for excellence.
Director
SDC • DG • AEA • SAG/AFTRA
Rep: Stephen F. Breimer, Esq.
Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson, LLP
1875 Century Park East • Suite 1770 • Los Angeles, CA 90067
Direct phone: (310) 859-6820
- ART Centre Stage - Greenville SC
- THE HUMAN COMEDY (Writer/Director -Stage Scene LA Award -Best Writing & Direction) Actors Co-op - Hollywood CA
- A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Actors Co-op - Hollywood CA
- SUMMER AND SMOKE Actors Co-op - Hollywood CA
- AH, WILDERNESS ( Stage Scene LA-Best Director) Actors Co-op - Hollywood CA
- THE MIRACLE WORKER Actors Co-op - Hollywood CA
- WAIT UNTIL DARK Actors Co-op - Hollywood CA
Workshop Production of New Works
- SUN CITY by Jim Geoghan - New play series Stella Adler Theater L.A.
- THE REAL REAL THING by Frank Higgins - Actors Co-op - Hollywood
- WASHINGTON IRVING’S SKETCHBOOK by Frank Higgins - Actors Co-op - Hollywood
- DIETRICH by John Martins III - Actors Co-op - Hollywood
Director of Theatre Arts - Village Christian Theatre Arts 2011-2022 – Los Angeles, CA
Directed full productions of…
- LOST IN YONKERS
- ANNIE
- THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
- GODSPELL
- YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
- FAT PIG
- HAIRSPRAY
- AGNES OF GOD
- THE DIVINERS
- VANITIES
- THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
- FOOL
- ANY GIVEN MONDAY
- MARY POPPINS
- DURANG DURANG
- SYLVIA
- CINDERELLA
- STEEL MAGNOLIAS
- PETER PAN
- CREATING CLAIRE
- TWENTIETH CENTURY
- THE MUSIC MAN
- PRELUDE TO A KISS
- BONNIE AND CLYDE The Musical
- BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
- THE SOUND OF MUSIC
- NEWSIES
WRITER
DG•WGA
Screenplays
- DEADLY DREAMS (Concorde/New Horizons )
BODY CHEMISTRY (Co- Writer - Concorde/New Horizons ) - THE AUDITION - A Short Film (Co-Writer – 168 Hour Film Festival
Winner Best Screenplay & Best Comedy
X-TREME WEEKEND - A Short Film (Co-Writer)
Official Selection: L.A. Comedy Short Film Festival
Official Selection: Cleveland International Film Festival
Official Selection: World of Comedy Film Festival – Toronto
Official Selection: Show Off Your Shorts Film Festival
Award of Merit Winner: The Indie Fest
Official Selection: Beverly Hills High-Def Film Festival
- INSURRECTION (Samuelson Productions)
- BLEEDING WRITING AND ARITHMETIC (Kings Road Entertainment)
- THE SUBSTITUTE (Apollo Pictures)
- ISLAND OF LONELY MEN (Sotela Pictures)
- PLAYLAND (Co - Writer Spec Feature Script)
- SPIRIT IN THE SKY (Spec Feature Script)
- CAPTAIN CHAMELEON (Co-writer - Spec Feature Script)
- X-TREME WEEKEND (Co-writer - Spec Feature Script)
Plays
- THE HUMAN COMEDY - Based on the novel by William Saroyan
(Actors Co-op -Hollywood, Nevada Conservatory Theatre - Las Vegas)
- SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY (Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop - NYC)
- ACROSS THE RIVER (Book & Lyrics – Great American Melodrama - CA Cohoes Musical Hall – NY)