Tom O'Horgan
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Tom O'Horgan (born May 3, 1926) is an American theatre and film director and composer.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, O'Horgan received his degree from DePaul University. Most of his early career work was in off-Broadway experimental theatre productions, including To the Water Tower, When the Owl Screams, and The Wrecking Ball as composer, Tom Paine, Masked Men, and Birdbath as director, and Futz! as both. In 1974, he conceived and directed a stage adaptation of the Beatles' classic recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
O'Horgan made his Broadway directorial debut in 1968 with the ground-breaking musical Hair, garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include Lenny, with Dustin Hoffman as controversial comedian-satirist Lenny Bruce, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dude, Inner City, The Leaf People, and I Won't Dance.
O'Horgan has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director three times, for Lenny, Futz!, and Tom Paine, and was named Theatrical Director of the Year by Newsweek in 1968.
O'Horgan composed the score for and directed the screen adaptation of Futz! with Frederic Forrest, Sally Kirkland, and Jennifer O'Neill, composed the score for Alex in Wonderland, and directed the film version of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros with Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, and Karen Black.
