Thomas F. Bradac

Professor Thomas F. Bradac has been a theatre professional for over thirty years.  He is the founder of the Grove Shakespeare Festival (1979-1991), guiding it through a thirteen-season tenure where he produced and/or directed 110 productions.  Notable productions for GSF included: Cyrano De Bergerac, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Dresser, The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Quilters, Mrs. California, and The Merchant Of Venice. His current professional project is Shakespeare Orange County (1992-present), for which he has directed Othello, Venus & Adonis, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, the award-winning King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Tartuffe, Measure for Measure, The Tempest and Macbethl.  He has has also performed as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing and Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor.   Tom was awarded the prestigious Dramalogue Publisher's Award for Exceptional Achievement in Theatre (1991) for his work with Grove Shakespeare Festival, the OC Weekly Helena Modjeska Award (1997) for his contributions to theatre in Orange County, and more recently the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Excellence in Education Award for his work at Chapman (2001).  He is a founding director of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America, a national service organization for theatres dedicated to producing professional Shakespearean productions, and has served as the organization's President.  Tom is a former member of South Coast Repertory.

William Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Directed by Thomas Bradac
Fall 2004