Chance and Necessity Director Tom Prewitt

Tom Prewitt and Mary Resing, photo by Ian Armstrong

Tom Prewitt is a professional director, educator and administrator with over twenty-five years in the field. He has directed widely in the Washington, DC region, staging many productions for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theater, Theatre of the
First Amendment and Signature Theatre, among others. He has also directed numerous New York and regional productions, from Portland, Maine to Carmel, California. He served as Associate Artistic Director at Woolly Mammoth for nearly ten seasons, during which time he not only directed for the mainstage but helped create and produce a new play reading series and many of the theatre’s acclaimed outreach programs, such as the Community Playbuilding project, which yielded fully-staged productions of Invisible City (2001) and The Other River (2006), about the 14th Street corridor and Southeast, DC, respectively. Mr. Prewitt also served as the first Executive Director of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, and currently serves on the Board of Directors and as Managing Director for
City at Peace, a non-profit youth development and performing arts group in Washington.