Thom Pasculli is a director, performer and the artistic director of Walkabout Theater Company in Chicago, a laboratory ensemble that creates new performances for theaters and public spaces. Recent directing credits include Walkabout’s international touring performances, The Brink! Or Nobody’s Ever Kissed Me Like That and The Wild, both of which were presented at Links Hall, Steppenwolf, and the National School of Drama in India. Recent outdoor spectacles include Monuments, Tall Girl and the Lightning Parade, and A Persephone Pageant, co-directed with Jessica Thebus. Other Chicago directing credits include Mother of Smoke with Walkabout and Red Tape Theatre, Core of the PUDEL at Trap Door Theatre and Circle-Machine at Oracle Productions. Thom’s work has been greatly influenced by his time working and studying at Double Edge Theatre in MA, the Odin Teatret in Denmark, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Redmoon Theater in Chicago as well as by significant international collaborations in India, Russia and South Africa. Thom teaches acting and movement at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago.