‏Thomas Edward Seymour‏

Thomas Edward Seymour is considered one of the "Top Twenty Contemporary Underground Filmmakers in the U.S." and is known for his performance as Tom on the Broadband Emmy Nominated series Net_work (2007-2009). According to the book The History of Independent Cinema (published in 2009) Tom was named a "Top Underground" filmmaker. This status has been echoed several times (New Haven Advocate 2010, Frames Per Second in 2011, The New England Horror Writers Association in 2012, New York New Filmmakers Quarterly in 2012). Tom's ninth feature film, the award winning documentary VHS Massacre was distributed by Troma Entertainment and FilmRise in 2016 and was called "A Fantastic Documentary" by Ain't it Cool News. In 2014 Seymour won the Platinum Remi for his feature film Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast. Other festival wins to date are from the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival, Bare Bones International, New York B-movie Awards, Silk City, New Haven Underground, Connecticut Screening Room, Maverick Awards and others. His films have been covered everywhere from NPR to the New York Times. Seymour is a director for Hale Manor Productions, Bloodbath Pictures and the former Black20 Studios. He is the creator of the popular internet web series Black20: Trailer Park (Seen on G4 TV, IGN, YouTube). Seymour's online video content has reached approximately 25,000,000 online views. In 2008 Thomas along with the rest of the Black20 comedy troop were voted the first "The King's of Dot Comedy" by "Attack of the Show" on G4TV. With Jon Gorman of Bloodbath Pictures Thomas directed the feature film Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast starring Ellen Muth (Dead Like Me Showtime series) in 2012 which was given a positive review by Ain't it Cool News and was featured in Issue #318 of Fangoria Magazine in the article "Bugged out on Beast". He also co-created the Bikini Bloodbath Trilogy, a comedy horror film series starring Debbie Rochon, Lloyd Kaufman. In 2010 Bikini Bloodbath Carwash was named the "#1 Ridiculous(ly Awesome) Horror Movie Titles of all time by Mark H. Harris, About.com Guide. The third installment of the Bikini Bloodbath series entitled Bikini Bloodbath Christmas was called "A, B-movie Masterpiece!" by horrorsociety.com in 2011 and was recommended by the Rain Dance Film Festival on the "List of Christmas Horror Films to watch: 12 Day of Anti-Christmas," in December 2013. At Hale Manor Productions, he starred in and directed such films as London Betty, starring Daniel Von Bargen from Seinfeld and Malcolm in the Middle and narrated by Clint Howard. London Betty also made the list of "Top Films of the Year" on Moviesmademe.com in 2009 and in May 2011 London Betty hit the #3 spot for British comedy on Amazon on Demand. He also directed the York Entertainment DVD release Bestseller Land of College Prophets and Everything Moves Alone, which had a New York Theatrical run in 2001. Some of his higher profile acting performances include A New Wave (starring John Krasinski), Being Michael Madsen (starring Michael Madsen, Virginia Madsen and David Carradine), the Broadband Emmy nominated Hulu series Net_Work as the character "Tom: The Coolest Guy in The Office" and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in the "Easter Bunny Hates You" digital video.