William M. Tomlinson

Current Info
84 Lowell St.
Somerville, MA 02143 USA
(617) 776 4244

Home Info
504 Mill Creek Road / Gladwyne, PA 19035 USA
Tel: (610) 649 1772 / Fax: (610) 649 6534
E-Mail to: billT@emsh.calarts.edu
http://emsh.calarts.edu/~billT/


EDUCATION:											
1994-96	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, Valencia, CA
	M.F.A. Experimental Animation - School of Film/Video
			
1990-94	HARVARD COLLEGE, Cambridge, MA
	A.B. Cum Laude - Biology Concentration 

FILM:								

1995-96	Filmmaker - "Shaft of Light" - 16mm. animation (8 min. 46 sec)
	Awards:    CINE Eagle
	           CalArts New Plays Festival 1995
	           Distributed by the Anti-Defamation League	
	Screenings:Sundance Film Festival
		   New York Expo of Short Film and Video
		   Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
		   Albany International Short Film Festival
	 	   Uppsala International Film Festival (Sweden)
		   New Orleans Film & Video Festival
		   Denver International Film Festival
		   Bilbao Festival of Documentary & Short Film (Spain)
		   Sinking Creek International Film Festival
		   BRAVO and the Independent Film Channel

1994-96	Writer/Director/Producer - "Artemis" - 16mm. feature (80 min.)
	Work in Progress

1994	Co-Director - "Boot Camp" - 16mm.  documentary (28 min.)

COMPUTERS:											
Systems:	Macintosh, IBM, MS-DOS, Windows 95, Unix

Programs:	Photoshop, Director, PageMaker, Premiere, Avid VideoShop, 
		Morph, Virtus Walkthru Pro, SoundEdit 16, MS-Word, 
		WordPerfect, Claris Works, FileMaker Pro

Languages:	HTML, BASIC, some C

WORK EXPERIENCE:									
1995-96	Ken Sherman & Associates, Literary Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
		Read scripts and created computer database for agency

1995-96	CalArts, Valencia, CA
		Film Library
		Film/Video Equipment Cage
		Teaching Assistant - Stop-Motion Animation

Proficient with many formats of video and film cameras and equipment

BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH:

1993	Monteverde, Costa Rica
	Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Class (Harvard)
	Conducted field research on insect distribution in the Monteverde
	Cloud Forest during a class trip to Costa Rica

1993	Cambridge, MA
	Biology of Fishes Class (Harvard)
	Pectoral and Pelvic Fin Action during Breaking in Lower Teleosts  

1992	Stone Harbor, NJ
	The Wetlands Institute
	Education Intern - Taught coastal ecology summer program to 
	first though third grade students

1989	Santa Cruz, CA
	Long Marine Laboratory (UCSC)
	Research assistant for a variety of research projects on dolphins,
	seals, and sea lions through EarthWatch program

WRITING:
1997	Journalist - "The Sundance Kid" - Philadelphia City Paper
1996	Wrote "The End of the World" and "Two Roads" - one act plays
1995-96	Script Reader, Ken Sherman and Associates
1995	Wrote "Shaft of Light" - won 1995 CalArts New Plays Festival
1994	Wrote "Artemis" - feature-length screenplay

OTHER:											
1996	"Boxed In" - The Artfront Partnership
	Created 15'x10'x6' sculpture/video installation for Phila.
	Commission - Center City Philadelphia - 13th & Chestnut St.

1994	Hasty Pudding Theatricals - Tech Crew

1992-95	Directed or Acted in six plays at Harvard and CalArts
	Pygmalion - Director
	Dracula - Director
	Little Shop of Horrors - Audrey Two (the plant)
	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Zebulun
	Danton's Death - LaCroix
	All Men Are Whores - Kevin

1990-94	Rowed for Harvard College and Eliot House (captain 1993)