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Meet TOM CAVANAUGH…. “Remember when you were a little kid,and your parents took you to your first amusement park…you’re overcome withglee and awe. Where do you go first? Here was Tom Cavanaugh on my Zoom screen.Where do I go first? Playwright. Screenwriter. Member of Actors’ Gym. LovesCasablanca. ‘Bedbuggers’, Best Feature Screenplay, Garden State Film Festival.Elia Kazan. Documentary, Franny’s Cookies.’ It’s a Wonderful Life.’ 9-1-1-Dispatcher. Brilliant. Incisive. Human Condition. Editor. Director. I ranaround on Zoom. Tom accommodates. Then the joint realization that we have to domore of these. My day was made hanging out with Tom. And he’s back in Jerseynow after LA. Oh, and I finally know what a multi-hyphenate is. Calvin
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TOM CAVANAUGH: Multi-Hyphenate Playwright, Screenwriter,& Filmmaker; Showing Garden State Film Festival, Screenplay, Bedbuggers.’
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BIO: Tom Cavanaugh isa highly decorated New Jersey playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Amulti-hyphenate creator, Tom has built a distinguished career as a writer,director, editor, and producer. He is the WINNER of the 2024 Fade In GrandPrize Award for Best Drama Screenplay in Hollywood and the recipient of theBest Feature Screenplay award at the 2026 Garden State Film Festival for hisscript, Bedbuggers.
Tom is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, theActors Studio Playwright/Directors Workshop (PDW), and The Actors Gym withOscar-winner Bobby Moresco. His play, Barklee, is currently part of the AMTTheater New Development Program in New York City. A staple of the Jersey Shorefilm scene, Tom is a member of the Asbury Arts Council’s Filmmaker Meetup Groupand a two-time finalist of the APin3 Contest in Asbury Park.
In addition to his creative accolades, Tom serves hiscommunity as a 9-1-1 Emergency Dispatcher in New Jersey. This unique vantagepoint on the human condition fuels his storytelling and his leadership asco-founder of The Brooks Playwrights Group at the historic Brooks Arts Centerin Bound Brook, NJ.
Synopsis for Bedbuggers
Title: Bedbuggers Logline: After the sudden death of theirmother, two siblings are forced into a nomadic life of grifting and"bedbugging" across the country with their estranged, eccentricfather.
Synopsis: Bedbuggers is a gritty, heartfelt dramedy thatexplores the messy reality of grief and the unconventional bonds of family.When a brother and sister are uprooted from their stable lives, they are thrustinto the shadow-world of their father’s scams. As they travel from motel tomotel, they must decide if they are running toward a new life or simply runningaway from the ghosts of the old one. It is a story of survival, dark humor, andthe search for "home" in the most unlikely places.
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Current Play/Project: www.barkleetheplay.com
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