Thomas F. Warfield has performed, from stage to television to film, in more than 100 cities around the world as a singer, dancer, actor, model, composer, choreographer, director, producer, educator, activist and poet. His numerous performances have taken him to a variety of forums, including the Metropolitan Opera, concerts on Martha’s Vineyard, a circus in Japan, solo concert at the Franco American Institute in France, and three maximum-security prisons in the United States. Mr. Warfield has worked with AIDS patients in Thailand, blind students in Taiwan, the homeless in Utah, and orphans in North Carolina, among thousands of others worldwide. Mr. Warfield is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where he teaches in both Performing Arts and Social Sciences. He is the also director of the RIT/NTID Dance Company. As a performing artist, his work has been praised by the New York Times, Hong Kong Daily Standard, China News, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Salt Lake Tribune, Raleigh, NC News and Observer, and many others. The British publication, The Morning Star, wrote that, his "...sensitive, superbly trained body filled every word and every movement with bitter meaning." Mr. Warfield has been the soloist at Unity Church in Rochester, New York for more than sixteen years, as well as soloist at the Chilmark Community Church on Martha’s Vineyard since 1988. Mr. Warfield earned a BFA degree from SUNY Purchase, achieving the President’s Award for Excellence. As an MFA candidate, he received a Research Fellowship from the University of Utah in dance ethnology. He’s performed with dance companies throughout the world including those from London, Sweden, Hong Kong and New York City. Mr. Warfield is the founder/artistic director of PeaceArt Internationala global outreach not-for-profit organization. His work raising awareness about orphans around the world with HIV/AIDS has raised thousands of dollars. He is a frequent guest speaker at conferences throughout the United States on issues of peace and justice, social activism, and spiritual awareness. Mr. Warfield is listed in Most Outstanding Young Men in America and Who’s Who. His numerous awards include: the Individual Artist Award from the Rochester Arts & Cultural Council, the Volunteer Award from the United Nations Association, Unsung Heroes Award from the City of Rochester, 1999 Dance Award from the Community of Colors, Creative Community Service Award from the University of Utah, Outstanding Leadership and Moral Sensitivity Award from the Rochester Greater Community of Churches, National Dance Association Award, Diversity Trailblazer Award from RIT, the 2001 Off Off-Broadway Award for Choreography, and the Jennifer Patterson Koon Peacemaking Award, among others. His Global Poem In Praise of Peace has garnered global recognition in letters from composer Leonard Bernstein and Mother Teresa and hundreds of others. Mr. Warfield’s first solo album, Celebrate the Moment, has sold throughout the world. He serves on the boards of the Rochester Arts & Cultural Council as Chair and founder of the Cultural Diversity Initiative, ARTWalk (outdoor museum), William Warfield Scholarship Fund at the Eastman School of Music, Race & Reconciliation, Education for Peace, Gateways Music Festival, Commission for Promoting Pluralism at RIT, PeaceWorks, China Millennium Council, Rochester City Ballet, Main Stream Music, LLC., the Rochester Mayor’s Advisory Council on Arts, Culture and Entertainment, and the New York Dance Festival. He attributes his passion and blessings in life to the SPIRIT of love. For more information please visit www.ThomasWarfield.com