Thomas Sutherland McPhee

• Youth Without God (adaptation of the Horváth novel for episodic theatre) [Episode 1: A Hard Generation, Episode 2: Adam and Eve, Episode 3: Expelled From Paradise, Episode 4: Die Forelle]
• The Cove, performed by Morris Area HS for 2015 Minnesota State HS League One-Act Play competiton
• The House of Atreus, performed by Morris Area HS for 2014 Minnesota State HS League One-Act Play competiton
• Ghosts in the machine, an independent psychological thriller [Part 1, Part 2]

• “Bones and Born Again”, 2014 in The Reader, Hampshire College’s literary journal
• “The Wright Brothers”, 2013 in The Reader, Hampshire College’s literary journal
• Here and here prime, a self-published collection of poetry
• 5 poems published in (F)loating World, the University of Minnesota Morris literary journal, 2011-12

• 12+ stage productions at Hampshire and Amherst Colleges
  • “Destiny” at Amherst College
  • “Of who we used to be” at Hampshire College
  • “Hot ‘n’ throbbing” at Hampshire College
• Sample playlists at 8Tracks.com
• Over 10 years experience as radio disc jockey
  • KUMM, 89.7 FM, University of Minnesota, Morris
  • Yurt Radio, Hampshire College

• 8+ stage productions at Hampshire College & University of Massachusetts Amherst
• The Winter’s Tale as Leontes/Shepherd, Hampshire College
• Red as Mark Rothko, UMass Directing Lab
• Words, Words, Words by David Ives, Amerst College Directing Lab
• Medea as Tutor/Chorus, University of Minnesota Morris

• “Iphigenia In Orem” by Neil LaBute, UMass Directing Lab
• “The Tomorrow Project” by Lizzy Dorrell, Hampshire College

I’ve studied directing at Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of Minnesota Morris.

• Elected onto the Hampshire College Theatre Board as the Alumni Relations Officer, 2013-14
• Served on the main operating body (Coordinating Board) of Hampshire College’s student government (Hampshire Student Union), 2014
• Leader of the Business (2012) and Outreach (2011) Teams for the Morris Area HS FIRST Robotics team

Hampshire College

Feminist Theatre and
Creative Writing

2012 – 2016

Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

For my Division III Captstone project I adapted Ödön von Horváth’s novel Youth without God into a four episode serial play, staging each of the four episodes across the 2015-16 school year. Each episode had different directorial teams, different casts, and were staged in different non-traditional spaces on campus.

• Selected for Guthrie Theater’s High School Shakespeare project with Andrew Wade, Ken Washington, and Randy Reyes, 2010
• Poetry Out Loud: Top six at MN state finals 4 years in a row, 2009-12
• Outstanding Performance Award, MN State HS League, 2010 (Arnold in Boys Next Door)
• Lake Region Arts Council Mentorship Grants in poetry writing (2011) and poetry recitation (2012)

• Literary Intern, Florida Studio Theatre, 2016-2017
• Admissions Intern, Hampshire College, 2014-2016
• Orientation Leader, Hampshire College, 2013-2015
• Volunteer at the Morris Theatre Co-Op, 2015
• Assistant Stage Manager for the Chester Theatre Company’s production of An Iliad, 2013
• Volunteered at World Apart Games cooperative, 2012-13