Tom Pecinka
Self Tape Coaching
Tom Pecinka is an actor and educator from Long Island, NY. He has taught masterclasses at some of the top training programs and Theaters in the United States. He specializes in On Camera Audition technique, Scene Study and Classical Theater Interpretation. He most recently was nominated for a Tony award for his role as Peter in the most Tony nominated play in Broadway history “Stereophonic”. He also played Peter in the Original Off Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. Tom can also be seen as Nate in two seasons of the Showtime/Amazon Prime series “American Rust”. On film, he has starred alongside Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson and Joe Manganiello in the crime thriller comedy “The Kill Room”. Off-Broadway Tom has been seen in such plays as Adrienne Kennedy’s “He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box” at Theatre for a New Audience, Patroclus in the Public Theater’s production of “Troilus and Cressida” at the Delacorte in Central Park, The Public’s production of “Richard II” as Aumerle and as Hotspur in Theatre for a New Audience’s production of “Henry IV”. At the start of his career, Tom had a large presence in the Regional Theater scene. He was seen at Yale Rep in “Arcadia” by Tom Stoppard and “Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3” by Suzan-Lori Parks. Tom spent two summers at the famed Williamstown Theatre Festival in “Member of the Wedding” and Ibsen’s “Ghost” starring alongside Uma Thurman.
Tom has worked as an instructor at The Prep since 2021. He loves to see his students grow not only as performers but as individuals through the work. He takes a very one-on-one approach to teaching acting. Rather than prescribing a specific technique, Tom strives to see the person before him, enhancing their skills through an individualistic approach. Building upon their strengths and vulnerability. Finding the heart of their work through where they happen to be in the present moment.
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