Thomas
Caron
was
born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1952. In 1967, when the
regional theatre movement was at its height, Stage/West opened
for business on The Eastern States Exposition grounds in his hometown
of West Springfield. He was hired to sweep the aisles, and from
that day his vocation was never in doubt. The leading lady and
matriarch of that company was Ruth Nelson, a founding member of
the legendary Group Theatre of the 1930's. It was through her
guidance that the young Mr. Caron was to learn his craft from
the 20th century theatre's most distinguished teachers, namely
Harold Clurman, Sanford Meisner, Robert Lewis, Stella Adler, and
Lee Strasberg.
Mr.
Caron has appeared before New York audiences in the title roles
of King Lear (two productions), Hamlet (two
productions), Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Richard the Second,
and The Misanthrope, as well as Leontes in The
Winter's Tale (two productions), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet,
Prospero in The Tempest, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth
Night, the two Dukes in As You Like It, Konstantine
in Chekov's The Seagull, Oedipus in Cocteau's The
Infernal Machine, The Cardinal in Cocteau's Bacchus,
Speaker in Beckett's A Piece of Monologue, and many other
classical and contemporary roles.
In
2002 he founded the Town Cow Theater Company of Concord, Massachusetts,
a free outdoor theater in Anne Chamberlin Park, named for the
fact that colonial Concord kept a town cow for the use of the
less fortunate. He is the director of The Concord Players Shakespeare
Workshop. He made his on-stage debut with The Concord Players
as Leroy, the misfit handyman in Bad Seed
In
2003, following The Infernal Machine and Hamlet
for The Town Cow, he directed Twelfth Night for The
Concord Players.
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