Thomas Warfield
Thomas Warfield has performed, from stage to television to film, in more than 100 cities around the world as a singer, dancer, actor, model, composer, choreographer, director, producer, educator, activist and poet. His numerous performances have taken him to a variety of forums, including La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera, concerts on Martha’s Vineyard, a circus in Japan, solo concert at the Franco American Institute in France, and three maximum-security prisons in the United States. Mr. Warfield has worked with AIDS patients in Thailand, blind students in Taiwan, the homeless in Utah, inner-city youth in North Carolina, elementary school children in Maui, Hawaii, community building through the arts in Idaho among thousands of others worldwide. Mr. Warfield is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where he teaches in dance and dance related courses in Performing Arts and an original course on Identity in Social Sciences. He is the also director of the RIT / NTID Dance Company, and Chairs the RIT President’s Commission for Pluralism & Inclusion. Mr. Warfield has been the soloist at Unity Church in Rochester, New York for more than sixteen years, as well as soloist at the Chilmark Community Church on Martha’s Vineyard since 1988.
