Tom Coash

Tom Coash is a Louisville, Kentucky playwright, director, and professor. Prior to Louisville, he spent three years in Bermuda and four years teaching playwriting at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Coash was a Co-founder of the Offstage Theatre in Charlottesville, Virginia and has worked for such theaters as the Manhattan Theatre Club, Stageworks/Hudson, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Coash has won numerous playwriting awards including the American Theatre Critics Association’s “M. Elizabeth Osborn Award”, the Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights, an Edgerton Foundation National New Play Award, the Hammerstein Award, The Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, a Jerome Playwriting Fellowship, among others. His plays have been produced around the world including such theaters as the South African National Arts Festival Portland Stage, Barrington Stage, the InterAct Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Park Theatre (London), Bailiwick Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, Boston Theater Marathon, and many more.

Coash was the recipient of a CT. State Artist Fellowship. His play CRY HAVOC recently had its European Premiere in London. His award-winning play VEILS was a Finalist for the American Theatre Critics Association’s ATCA/Steinberg Best New American Play Award and was recently published by Original Works Publishing. Coash has an MFA in Playwriting from the University of California at Davis.