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Thomas Warfield: Biography
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 the Metropolitan Opera, concerts on Martha’s Vineyard, a circus in Japan, and three maximum-security prisons in the USA. He also worked with AIDS patients in Thailand, blind students in Taiwan, and orphans in France, among thousands of others worldwide. As an assistant professor in the department of Cultural and Creative Studies at NTID / RIT he teaches in Performing Arts as well as Social Science. Mr. Warfield is the director of the RIT / NTID Dance Company.
Mr. Warfield is the founder of PeaceArt International—a global outreach project, and Associate Director of Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre at the NY Institute of Dance and Education. He has been the soloist at Unity Church in Rochester for more than 12 years, as well as at the Chilmark Community Church on Martha’s Vineyard. As a performing artist, he has been acclaimed by the New York Times, Hong Kong Daily Standard, China News and the British paper, The Morning Star. The Star wrote that, his "...sensitive, superbly trained body filled every word and every movement with bitter meaning."
Mr. Warfield earned a BFA degree from SUNY Purchase, winning the President’s Award for Excellence. As an MFA candidate, he received a Research Fellowship from the University of Utah in dance ethnology. Mr. Warfield’s 14 years with the Opera Theatre of Rochester, and performances with the New York City Opera and Metropolitan Opera, allowed him to work with directors Franco Zefferelli and Spike Lee, composers John Adams and Marvin Hamlisch, scientist Carl Sagan, singer Placido Domingo, and others. As a dancer, Mr. Warfield performed works by Balanchine, Graham, Nijinsky, Joffrey, Cunningham, Taylor, Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, Bill T. Jones or Arnie Zane, and many others. He worked in companies worldwide, including Jane Dudley in London, and the Dance Company of Macau in China, Windwitch in Stockholm, among others.
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Mr. Warfield has also been a facilitator/trainer for the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) in leadership & cultural diversity training, prejudice reduction and nonviolent conflict resolution. He is a frequent guest speaker at conferences throughout the United States on issues of peace & justice, social activism, and spiritual awareness.
Mr. Warfield is listed in Most Outstanding Young Men in America and Who’s Who. His numerous awards include: the Volunteer Award from the United Nations, Unsung Heroes Award from the City of Rochester, 1999 Dance Award from the Community of Colors, Creative Community Service Award from the University of Utah, Outstanding Leadership and Moral Sensitivity Award from the Rochester Greater Community of Churches, National Dance Association Award, Diversity Trailblazer Award from RIT, Off Off-Broadway Award for Choreography, and the Jennifer Patterson Koon Peacemaking Award, among others. His Global Poem In Praise of Peace has garnered global recognition in letters from Leonard Bernstein and Mother Teresa. His first CD, Celebrate the Moment has been sold worldwide.
Thomas Warfield serves on many local, national and international boards including: the Rochester Arts & Cultural Council (where he is chair of the Cultural Diversity Initiative), ARTWalk (outdoor museum), William Warfield Scholarship Fund at the Eastman School of Music, Race & Reconciliation, Education for Peace, Gateways Music Festival, PeaceWorks, China Millennium Council, Dance Critics Association, Association of Teaching Artists, World Dance Alliance, and others. He attributes his passion and blessings in life to the SPIRIT of love.
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