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After an adventurous yet unfinished stay at Fordham University, Tom began his professional career doing regional theatre productions.
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Broadway: Good Vibrations. Nat’l tour: Spamalot. NY: South Pacific (Carnegie Hall), Bye Bye Birdie (Encores!), Best Foot Forward (York), Dead Man Walking (NYCO). Regional: White Christmas (San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre), Hair (Bay Street Theatre), Into the Woods (Fulton Opera House), Grease (Downtown Cabaret Theatre). TV: “Salon Confidential,” “Sex and the City,” “Hope & Faith” and “Law & Order: SVU.” AEA member.
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Tom Deckman was an audience favorite as a flustered stage manager bordering on hysteria...
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