Tom Blomquist

Office:	FA1-201B
Office Hours:	By appointment
Phone:	562-985-4185
E-mail:	Blomquist-FEA@dslextreme.com

Tom Blomquist is an award-winning Writer, Producer and Director. His television credits range from science fiction (Farscape, Quantum Leap, Swamp Thing) to action adventure (The A-Team, Walker Texas Ranger, Hunter) to family drama (Fame L.A., Twice In A Lifetime, Catherine Marshall’s Christy).

Prior to launching his career in prime time series, Mr. Blomquist was an NBC Staff Producer on the classic late night talk show Tomorrow With Tom Snyder and Associate Producer of the Martin Short sitcom pilot Dad. He additionally produced network documentary segments and received commissions to write television pilots and feature screenplays, including the Dino DeLaurentiis vampire thriller Dracula’s Widow, starring Sylvia Kristel and Lenny Von Dohlen.

Mr. Blomquist more recently served as Executive Producer, Writer and Second Unit Director of the critically acclaimed six-hour mini-series sequel to Christy, as well as Producer and Director of the comedy Prison Life, which was cited by the Houston Chronicle as one of the ten best short films of the year. He also directed the music videos for singer-songwriter Kellie Coffey’s Walk On and I Would Die For That.

Having begun his resume as a Program Executive at MTM Productions and Foote, Cone & Belding Advertising, where he worked on the Emmy-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame, Mr. Blomquist has since become an active member of the Directors Guild and Writers Guild of America. He is a charter member of the WGA’s Writers Education Committee. He has also served on the Writers Peer Group Executive Committee and College Emmy jury at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Blomquist counts among his most valued memories the extraordinary opportunity, at the ripe old age of 22, to work with legendary directors Orson Welles and Vittorio DeSica on The Man Who Came To Dinner and The Small Miracle, respectively. Of that amazing experience, he says, “I had just finished studying Citizen Kane, Umberto D and The Bicycle Thief in college… only to inexplicably find myself on location in London and Rome three months later engrossed in daily conversations with the two gentlemen who actually made those masterpieces. It was surreal.”

A graduate of Southern Illinois University, Mr. Blomquist teaches Directing, Media Aesthetics and Production at CSULB. He has also taught screenwriting at USC and AFI.