Tom rooney biography

“You talk some more,” Tom Rooney says over dinner at Queen Mother in Toronto. “I think this article should be about you. Your conversation with me.”

“Well,” I say. “It is, a bit.”

I first met Tom at the end of 2014 when we were starting rehearsals for The Seagull, directed by Chris Abraham.

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Earlier that year he’d won a Dora for his staggering work in Kristen Thomson’s Someone Else, and his performance as a doctor dealing with an unraveling marriage and a complicated relationship with a patient gutted me.

So I began The Seagull feeling awed and intimidated by Tom. I was awkward and nervous around him, and I found it difficult to make eye contact for a good while. But given the roles we were playing—he was Trigorin, the successful writer, and I was Nina, the budding actress who falls disastrously in love with him—I think my discomfort was probably