Tom Frey is a director, actor, and musician. He helmed the critically successful 2021, 2022, and 2023 summer seasons at the Peterborough Players as Artistic Director. He is the US resident director of the Canadian smash-hit play, 2 Pianos 4 Hands. He has directed over 20 productions of 2P4H at theatres around the country, including Portland Stage, The Cape Playhouse, Stages Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Pittsburgh City Theatre, the Rubicon, and many others. In addition to directing the show, he has performed the show over 600 times in the United States and Canada. He has played both roles, but spent most of his time playing the role of Ted.

During the pandemic, as Artistic Director of the Players, he directed an acclaimed production of Our Town, performed onsite in downtown Peterborough, NH, widely believed to be a heavy inspiration for Thornton Wilder's "Grover's Corners". Also at the Players, he has directed Souvenir, Grand Horizons, Two Pianos 4 Hands, Maytag Virgin, Cabaret, Circle Mirror Transformation, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, Always...Patsy Cline, the U.S. premiere of Kristen DaSilva's Where You Are, and others, in addition to spending the better part of 12 years as a member of the Players' Acting Company.

As an actor, he has performed in venues across the country, with some favorites including Daniel Beaty’s Breath and Imagination from early development workshops to Hartford Stage, Pittsburgh City Theatre, and Cleveland Playhouse; Dirty Blonde at the Cleveland Playhouse and Pittsburgh Public Theatre; Souvenir at Seven Angels Theatre; Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes at Milwaukee Skylight Opera Theatre; Mack Sennet in Mack and Mabel and Wilson Mizner in the American Regional Premiere of Sondheim’s Road Show at Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston.

He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and lives with his partner, actor Bridget Beirne.

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