Tom Noonan Biography

Fast Facts

• Plays piano, organ, accordion, guitar, mandolin and violin, and composes music
• Musically, he's into Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, the Beatles and Eminem
• Founded the Paradise Theater Company in New York City in 1983
• Lanford Wilson wrote the play A Poster for the Cosmos for him
• Has had three films made of his plays, What Happened Was
• , The Wife and Wang Dang
• Won a 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship in Filmmaking
• Favorite horror movies are the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Exorcist
• Sometimes is credited as Richmond Arrley and Ludovico Sorret
• Has served as a professor of film at Yale University, Columbia University, the School of Visual Arts and New York University