Tom Abrams, M.F.A.

Associate Professor

Tom Abrams is an award-winning writer and director in both film and television and instructs both graduate and undergraduate students in the practice of screenwriting and directing.

As a writer, he shared a 1992 Emmy Award for the children's television series, Rugrats, and his short film Shoeshine (1987) was nominated for an Academy Award and received the Montreal World Film Festival first prize. 1989's Performance Pieces won a special award at that year's Cannes International Film Festival. His projects include The Desperate Trail (1995) for TNT, Conversations With The Beast (1995, co-written with Armin Mueller-Stahl), The American Princess (2000) for New Line Cinema, The Captain’s Wife for Fox 2000, Have Gun Will Travel for Warner Bros and The Battle of Ono for Executive Producer John Woo at Universal.

For the last 15 years, Abrams has taught filmmaking internationally and consulted on projects in more than 20 countries.