Tom recently received one of the biggest honors of his comedy career when he was one of 20 performers chosen nationally for the 2012 Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk, Nebraska. Winner of the Carolina's Funniest Comic competition in 2010, Tom has been a featured performer at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Laugh Your Asheville Off Festival, the Laugh Detroit Comedy Festival, the Charleston Comedy Festival and the Laughing Skull Festival in Atlanta. A Michigan State University graduate and proud native of the Mitten State, he is currently the Director of Standup at the DSI Comedy Theater in Carrboro, North Carolina, where he sometimes says "y'all."