Biography: Resume
Tom Soter
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Writing/Editing
4/82 – Present
MANAGING EDITOR, CONSULTING EDITOR, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Habitat Magazine
6/78 – 6/81
ASSISTANT EDITOR, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Firehouse Magazine
6/78 – Present
FREELANCE WRITER
Entertainment Weekly, Diversion, Empire, Video, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, Video Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times Syndicate, many more
2002
BOOK AUTHOR
INVESTIGATING COUPLES
An analysis of The Thin Man, The Avengers, and The X-Files
1992
BOOK AUTHOR
BOND & BEYOND: 007 AND OTHER SPECIAL AGENTS
Book about the James Bond movies and their offshoots.
Improv/Performance
1987 – Present
IMPROV TEACHER
Teach beginning, intermediate, advanced, and performance level classes in improv comedy.
1992 – Present
EMCEE/PRODUCER/PERFORMER
SUNDAY NIGHT IMPROV
Host. producer, director of weekly improv comedy jam at the 78th Street Theater Lab, 236 West 78th Street at Sunday Night Improv.
1990 – Present
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR, VARIOUS INDUSTRIALS
Directed, created/co-wrote industrials for Sixteen Magazine, Green Forest Environmental Group, others
1984 – 1986
PERFORMER, DIRECTOR, N.Y. IMPROV SQUAD
Improv troupe that performed at clubs such as The Improvisation and Folk City and in Central Park for a year. Chosen to be in the Village Voice Festival of Street Entertainers.
1982 – 1984
PRODUCER, WRITER, PERFORMER, VIDEOSYNCRACIES
Created, wrote, produced cable TV comedy show.
Soter’s first book.
TS interviews Raymond Burr
Soter, with SNI cast members, 1995.