Tony Torn is an actor and director with over a hundred professional credits in film, television and theater since 1985. Tony is known for working extensively with experimental theater makers Reza Abdoh and Richard Foreman, as the founding director for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, and creating and starring in UBU SINGS UBU with Dan Safer. With Lee Ann Brown, he co-curated the PLAYS ON WORDS Poet Theater Festival at St Marks Church in 2006 and the POLYPHONIC POETRY FESTIVAL at the Judith Wilson Center, Cambridge University, UK. They recently appeared together in TRY TRY TRY by Frank O'Hara and in SPIDER RABBIT by Michael McClure (directed by Dan Safer).