Thomas Kail

About Thomas

• He went to Wesleyan University, where he met his collaborator Anthony Veneziale.
• Anthony invited him to help write the humor section of the campus newspaper.
• The two of them worked on that together for six months, then they wrote a piece that was so bad that they got fired.
• He graduated with a degree in American history, but he was really interested in producing shows through the theater department.
• After school, he struck a deal with his parents: he'd pursue his theater dreams for one year, and if it didn't work out, he'd come home.
• He moved to New Jersey to be closer to New York City, and he subsisted mostly off of tomato soup and tuna fish.
• The two eventually synced back up to open Back House Productions, which later produced Tony-award winner, In the Heights.
• Says you'll never know if you're truly on the right path, but if you feel a spark, you're probably in the right place.