Tom Demar writes topical dramedy films with music and nostalgia. He dives deeply into emotional circumstances.

 

Tom grew up in a small blue-collar town thirty miles downriver from Pittsburgh. After writing-directing and acting in NYC theaters, and then kicking it in Europe for a year, he drove across the U.S. to Los Angeles, where one of his plays, a coming-of-age hip hop comedy cast with a dozen young actors from an L.A. Job Corps acting class, and with a performance run on Hollywood's Theater Row, became a film selected by Dances With Films, screening at Laemmle Theater. Tom wrote, composed, directed and co-produced the film, the stage play, and the radio play performed live over KXLU, an L.A. college station. He was hooked.

 

Since then he's written, directed, acted and penned songs for features and shorts screened at Sundance, DGA, LA Live, Krikorian, Mann's Chinese, Downtown Independent and more. Tom is a member of ALAP (Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights) and the Craft Services Network of screenwriters and filmmakers.

 

He has several original projects in development, including:

 

I NEARLY LOST YOU,

LOVE CHILD,

FREE FLO  and

PARTY GIRL SAVES THE WORLD 

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Tom's theater experience informs a layered, nuanced, subtextual style; his journalism background lends a discipline for research, listening and observing; and his music upbringing reared his love for rhythm in speech and colorful musical characters.
 

Tom pitches to producers and executives live and virtually. He relays hopes and dreams, desires and desperation, the wilder side.