Tom Costello is a freelance director from Ithaca, New York. At EST, he’s directed four times for A4T (Kim Davies 2013, Kim George 2017, Daniel K. Isaac 2018 and Michael Feldman 2019) four Bloodworks (Lucy Teitler 2013, Kim Davies 2018, Yilong Liu 2019, Kim Davies 2019) and two brunches (Krista Knight 2014, Kim Davies 2019). He has been Pipeline’s Associate Artistic Director since 2016 where he has directed Sleepless City by Tim Chawaga, Shakespeare the Dead by Alex Mills, Bubble and Squeak by Evan Twohy and co-directed Corpse Backpack by the members of the 2018 PlayLab. He was a 2017 Drama League Directing Fellow at the Hangar where he directed The Messenger by Olivia Dufault and Aesop’s Fables by Christopher Parks. He is an Associate Artist at The Flea, where he has directed Smoke by Kim Davies and The Wundelsteipen by Nick Jones. Elsewhere, he has directed Libra Theater Company’s The Thirteenth Commandment by Joshua H. Cohen. He co-directed the Atlantic for Kids production of This Girl Laughs This Girl Cries This Girl Does Nothing by Finegan Kruckemeyer. He has also directed numerous Atlantic Acting School shows where he also teaches. BFA NYU/Tisch, Screenwriting training at FAMU in Prague.