Nathan Thomas
Head of Musical Theatre, Interim Associate Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance
About Nathan Thomas
Nathan Thomas is a professional musician (conductor/pianist/arranger), theatre practitioner (director/music director/actor), and teacher of both music and theatre. His professional career has included performances on Broadway, in Las Vegas, and tours all over the U.S. and Canada (and to Brazil, China, Japan, and Russia), while his academic career prior to arriving in Memphis included appointments at the University of Cincinnati, Western Illinois University, Elon University, and as program director for the musical theatre programs at Western Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Education
M.F.A. (Directing), Artist Diploma in Opera (Stage Directing)
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (1995)B.A. (Musical Theatre Production)
Indiana University (1991)Admitted
AFM Local 802
SDC (Associate Member)Research Interests
Teaching interests: acting, audition preparation, directing, music skills, musical theatre performance, song interpretation
Selected Creative Research
director/music director
- University of Memphis: Murder Ballad, Vices: A Love Story
- 110 in the Shade, Adding Machine: A Musical, Assassins, Cabaret, Chess, Company, The Drowsy Chaperone, Into the Woods, Next to Normal, The Spitfire Grill, Spring Awakening
director
- Betrayal, Candide, Next to Normal (co-directed with Terrence Mann), Oleanna, The Real Thing, Slowgirl (co-directed with Taylor Royer)
music director
- University of Memphis: Into the Woods, The Most Happy Fella, The Rocky Horror Show, Starting Here, Starting Now
- Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Bridges of Madison County, Chicago, Dani Girl, Fiddler on the Roof, Jersey Boys (Playhouse on the Square), The Light in the Piazza, Les Misérables, Oklahoma!
keyboards
- 42nd Street (Moscow), Annie (Broadway), Cats, Fosse (First National), Monty Python’s Spamalot (Las Vegas), Show Boat, West Side Story
actor
- Oleanna, Richard 3, Seascape With Sharks and Dancer, Slowgirl
