Tom Isbell

Tom Isbell is an actor-author-professor and graduate of the Yale School of Drama. He spent his professional career acting in theater, film, and TV, working opposite Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris, Helen Hunt, Lynn Redgrave, Anne Bancroft, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Turturro, and others. Currently a professor of theater at the University of Minnesota, he has taken two productions to the Kennedy Center as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He adapted the Newbery Honor-winning book The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg for the stage, produced by the Theatre for Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center in 2012. His original stage plays include Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, which was adapted into a book with then-First Lady Laura Bush penning the foreword. In 2007 he was honored to receive the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion. Tom and his wife live in Duluth, Minnesota.