Thomas Hischak is the author of more than 50 published plays that are performed in the
United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. His playwriting awards
include the Stanley Drama Award (New York City) for Cold Cold War Comedy, the
Julie Harris Playwriting Award (Beverly Hills, Calif.) for The Cardiff Giant
and two AACT NewPlayFest awards for The Emperor of North America (2016) and
Escaping the Labyrinth (2022). Hischak is also the author of 32
nonfiction books about theatre, film and popular music, including The Oxford
Companion to the American Musical, 1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year, The
Disney Song Encyclopedia and The Oxford Companion to American Theatre.
He was a professor of theatre at The State University of New York at Cortland
for 33 years and a Fulbright scholar who has taught and directed in Greece,
Lithuania and Turkey. He is currently an adjunct professor of theatre and film
at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla.
