Thomas Azar is an actor, director, and fight choreographer.

Selected acting credits from South Carolina include The Lehman Trilogy, Harry Clarke, Appropriate, Much Ado About Nothing, and Angels in America: Parts I & II (The Warehouse Theatre); The Scarlet Letter (South Carolina New Play Festival); Identity Crisis and The Fox on the Fairway (Centre Stage South Carolina); John Proctor Is the Villain (Clemson University); This Is How It Goes (Furman University); and The Lifespan of a Fact, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, The Thanksgiving Play, and Barefoot in the Park at Lean Ensemble Theater, where he is an ensemble member.

Elsewhere in the country, Thomas has performed with the Alliance Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, California Theatre Center, Magic Theatre, and Actor's Express. His short film credits include In a Room at the Edge of Infinity and No Ordinary Love, and he starred in the pilot of “Divided States”.
Thomas's fight choreography has been seen on the stages of Lean Ensemble Theater, The Warehouse Theatre, Centre Stage South Carolina, California Theatre Center, Furman University, and very nearly at Clemson University but for a global pandemic. He currently serves as the adjunct instructor of Stage Combat and Acting at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.

Thomas earned his MFA in Classical Acting from the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy at the George Washington University.

Education

• MFA in Classical Acting, George Washington University