Tom Flannery
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Acclaimed songwriter and playwright from Northeastern Pennsylvania. The All Music Guide has called him "One of the most gifted songwriters to emerge at the turn of the century". His CDs include 1998's Song About a Train, 2000's The Anthracite Shuffle, and 2002's solo acoustic Drinking With Nick Drake. Since 2003, he has released all his music digitally via the http://www.songaweek.com website...where his songs have been downloaded over a quarter of a million times since 2003.
His produced plays include The Driveway, directed by the late Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist (That Championship Season) Jason Miller, and God and the Ghost of Woody Guthrie, a 2003 play on the life of the great folksinger, in which Flannery received permission from the Guthrie family to include portions of Woody's writings.
He has also written extensively on the horrors of the Rwandan genocide, culminating in the online Rwandan Song Cycle (http://www.rwandasongs.com) and an accompanying stage play called "Rwandan Eyes".
His website is http://www.tomflannery.us
