04/21/2026
Meet the Director of the 2026 Shakespeare Under the Stars production of The Comedy of Errors!
Thomas Rothacker is an Actor, Director, Dramaturg and Playwright. He has worked in a variety of capacities Off and Off-Off Broadway. Tom will be traveling to La Jolla Playhouse this Spring to the Without Walls Festival (WOW) with [IMAGE DESCRIPTION], a participatory live theater experience that explores our surreal relationship with reality, fiction, memory, images, and each other. This is the second trip to WOW after 2023's INERTIA, an intergenerational theatre experience written by and starring Drew Petersen.
In NYC, Tom has acted, directed and produced at theatres such as The Tank, Theatre for the New City, Theatre Row, The Kraine, American Theatre of Actors, Looking Glass, Wombat Theatre Co. Tom is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at CUNY Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY. He teaches courses such as Theatre History, Play Analysis, Fundamentals of Acting, Foundations in Theatre Arts and Playwriting. Tom is the Immediate Past Co-Chair for ACTF Region 1.
We're excited to have Tom join us for the 2026 summer season - sign up for auditions today at https://tinyurl.com/CCCC-COE