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Tom Piper MBE (born 24 November 1964) is a British theatre designer who regularly collaborates with director Michael Boyd. He became an associate designer with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004.
Piper, born in London on 24 November 1964, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. In 1984 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge to read biology, but in mid-course switched to art history. From 1988 to 1990 he attended the Slade School of Art postgraduate course in theatre design.
In 1990 he spent six months with Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, working on Brook's visionary production of The Tempest, before becoming a freelance designer working at the Nottingham Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre and the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and winning the London Fringe Best Design Award for Cat in the Ghetto, staged at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, West London.
He first worked with Michael Boyd at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow with his design for the 1991 production of the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, since when their careers have been closely linked.
Actors: Blythe Danner (actress), Anna Faris (actress), Dan Marshall (actor), Thomas Lennon (actor), Joel McHale (actor), Zachary Quinto (actor), Dan Marshall (actor), Dan Marshall (actor), Aziz Ansari (actor), Martin Freeman (actor), Anthony Mackie (actor), Chris Evans (actor), Ed Begley Jr. (actor), Ivana Milicevic (actress), Andy Samberg (actor),
Plot: Ally is a woman who has many ex-boyfriends who turned out to be losers. Now she believes that she can't find a good guy. But when she runs into one of her exes who is now a 'Prince Charming', she decides to look up all of her exes to see if any of them have changed for the better. And when she has trouble locating them, she asks her neighbor Colin, who sleeps with women every night and sneaks out the morning after to avoid talking to them, to help her.
Keywords: based-on-novel, blackberry, blackberry-cell-phone, boston-celtics, female-protagonist, fired-from-the-job, iphone, iphone-3gs, number-in-title, number-of-partnersActors: Hal Thompson (writer), Hal Thompson (producer), Hal Thompson (producer), Hal Thompson (composer), Hal Thompson (director), Clifford Lee (actor), Clifford Lee (actor), Aaron Murnaghan (composer), Colin Nicolle (actor), Ryan Bamford (actor), Tom Cromwell (actor), Jonathan Harrison (actor), James Hubley (actor), Mike Adams (actor), Rob Welch (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History, Short,Actors: Christopher Plummer (actor), Paul Sabella (producer), Jeff Bergman (miscellaneous crew), James Belushi (actor), Cathy Cavadini (actress), Bronson Pinchot (actor), Paul Sabella (director), Lacey Chabert (actress), Susan Silo (actress), Charles Nelson Reilly (actor), Raphael Sbarge (actor), Kelly Ward (producer), Mark Watters (composer), Kelly Ward (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Dern (producer),
Plot: It's 2 days before Christmas, and the Toyland Toy Factory has just received its biggest order ever. But the evil Barnaby, who doesn't believe in toys, has plans to shut the factory down and spoil the holiday for everyone. Now it's up to Toyland's most recent arrivals, young Jack & his sister Jill, to help their newfound friends Tom Piper, Mary Lamb, Humpty Dumpty, and the rest of Toyland stop Barnaby's plot and save Christmas!
Keywords: attic, black-cat, boy, cave, chase, child-in-peril, christmas, clock-tower, critically-bashed, demonActors: Jim Dale (actor), Neville Brand (actor), Jim Dale (actor), Eddie Albert (actor), Sean Barrett (actor), Ray Bolger (actor), Raymond Bailey (actor), Jeff Bridges (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Wally Brown (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Pinto Colvig (actor), Pinto Colvig (actor), Pinto Colvig (actor), Jim Dale (actor),
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Ray Bolger (actor), Bess Flowers (actress), Jack Donohue (actor), Jack Donohue (director), Walt Disney (producer), Bill Thomas (costume designer), Robert Banas (actor), Ann Jillian (actress), Annette Funicello (actress), Ward Kimball (writer), Tommy Kirk (actor), Ed Wynn (actor), Kevin Corcoran (actor), Mary McCarty (actress), Gene Sheldon (actor),
Plot: Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo Peep, thus depriving Mary and the children she lives with of their livelihood, forcing her to marry Barnaby. The sheep are stolen, but Gonzorgo and Roderigo, Barnaby's henchmen, double-cross him by selling Tom to a band of gypsies instead, leaving Tom with the opportunity to escape and make his way with Mary, Bo-Peep, and other Mother Goose characters to Toyland.
Keywords: blame, irresponsibility, lifting-an-adult-into-the-air, lifting-female-in-air, lifting-male-in-air, lifting-someone-into-the-air, little-boy, little-girl, miniaturization, remake