Tom Mula has been an award-winning Chicago actor, director, and playwright for more than 40 years. Audiences have appreciated Tom's performances in a good deal of Shakespeare, as Koko in Hot Mikado, and in solo turns in The Circus of Dr. Lao and Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. Tom also spent seven seasons at Chicago's Goodman Theatre playing Scrooge. Mula’s plays include Almighty Bob, The Golem, Nicole Hollander’s Sylvia’s Real Good Advice, and adaptations of John Gardner’s In the Suicide Mountains and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1995, Adams Media published Tom’s book Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol; it was a Chicago Tribune bestseller. The audio version was broadcast for several seasons on NPR. The award-winning play version is a perennial favorite, and has had hundreds of productions worldwide. Tom spends most of his summers acting and directing at Peninsula Players in Door County, Wisconsin. He teaches in the Theatre Department at Columbia College Chicago. He may be reached at tommula.com.
