Biography

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EDUCATION

Tom Stovall majored in FILM and TELEVISION at the UCLA FILM SCHOOL.  He was COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER and  graduated with DISTINCTION  from ECKERD COLLEGE earning a BACHELOR OF ARTS degree in FILM STUDIES. He was conferred a MASTERS OF LIBERAL ARTS degree from the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA ST. PETERSBURG. 

ACTING

Throughout his college career, Stovall acted and directed plays and musicals authored by Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Pinter, Thurber, Rogers and Hammerstein, Shakespeare, and others.

Stovall began his professional acting career performing on BROADWAY in the musical HAIR. He appeared in the original Broadway and Los Angeles casts of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. Stovall pursued an acting career in Los Angeles that led to appearances in television series, including: M*A*S*H, LOU GRANT, KUNG FU, and ROCKFORD FILES, among many others. He appeared in the feature film, SILKWOOD and  co-starred in H. G. Well’s, FOOD OF THE GODS (an American International Pictures feature release). He is a former member the ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION, and is currently a member in good standing of the SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION of RADIO and TELEVISION ARTISTS.

DIRECTING

As a student at the UCLA FILM SCHOOL, Stovall produced and directed a film adaptation of novelist and playwright, James Leo Herlihy's (THE MIDNIGHT COWBOY), TERRIBLE JIM FITCH featuring Mundi Armon and the late Tom Baker (Andy Warhol’s:  I, A MAN). After viewing TERRIBLE JiIM FITCH, Mr. Herlihy gave Stovall permission to film a second play, BAD, BAD JO-JO from his trilogy called, LAUGHS, ETC. 

PRODUCING

Stovall  begin his producing career with fellow UCLA film students Buzz Hirsch and Larry Cano in their quest to bring to the screen the five-time Academy Award nominated feature film, SILKWOOD starring Meryl Streep and Cher. He served as ASSOCIATE PRODUCER.

 He also served as  ASSOCIATE PRODUCER on Diane Keaton’s directorial debut of the feature film, HEAVEN.  

Stovall served as EXECUTIVE PRODUCER of  TO HAVE AND TO HOLD for ABC TV, 

starring Mark Linn-Baker (co-star in the television series PERFECT STRANGERS).

 Stovall is a PRODUCERand OWNER of the film, television, and stage rights to Claude Brown's MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND. He was an EXECUTIVE PRODUCER of the stage production of MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND at Theater Three in Dallas, Texas and the New York City production at the American Place Theater.

ART

Stovall specializes in graphite on paper and is widely known as a large-scale muralist. His work includes  restoration of the HISTORIC MURALS at the  VINOY RENAISSANCE RESORT, MANGROVES ( St Petersburg's NE water treatment tanks ), ST PETERSBURG'S CRESCENT LAKE WATER TOWER, SEMINOLE WATER TOWER, DUNEDIN'S CURLEW RD WATER TOWER,  and his favorite, THE YELLOW SUBMARINE. 

DANCE

Stovall studied dance with the ST. PETERSBURG CONCERT BALLET, MIAMI BALLET COMPANY, and the NATIONAL BALLET COMPANY OF WASHINGTON ,D.C. 

 He appeared for three years with the KIROV BALLET of St. Petersburg, Russia, in the Kirov's St. Petersburg, Florida's production of Tchaikovsky’s, NUTCRACKER. 

 Stovall wrote, produced, directed, and performed ABBEY ROAD, a dance interpretation of the Beatle’s, Abbey Road album staged at Eckerd College, University of Florida, Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, and Arena Theater in Washington, D. C.

He created the dance production A WICKED TALE OF JOY, featuring the music of Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Doors and The Rolling Stones. This production was choreographed by international renown Eddie Toussaint of  BALLET EDDIE TOUSSAINT DU MONTREAL. 

MUSIC

 Stovall is a classically trained PIANIST.

FINANCE

Stovall passed the FLORIDA VARIABLE ANNUITY & HEALTH INSURANCES and the SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSIONS' SERIES 7, 65, and 66 EXAMS to become a FINANCIAL CONSULTANT with the WILLIAM R. HOUGH AND COMPANY, and later THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, where he  focused on municipal bonds and fixed income.