Biography

Tom Musca first captured attention as the producer and writer of Stand and Deliver. The popular Warner Bros. film starred Edward James Olmos and earned an Oscar nomination as well as six Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. It is preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

In recent years Tom Musca has become one of Miami's most prolific film producers, writing and directing Chateau Vato which premiered on HBO and won Best Actress for Elpidia Carrillo at the 2021 Barcelona Film Festival. Musca also produced Amaraica which collected the trophy for Best U.S. feature at the 2020 NY Latino Film Festival and is streaming on HBO through fall of 2023. Previously, Musca's timely immigration drama, Make Love Great Again, was also licensed to HBO. Musca's two newest projects -- Cognac & Croquetas, which garnered Best Original Screenplay at the 2020 UFVA competition, and Aguadilla, an erotic thriller, will be produced in association with MOVIEMEX.

Musca has written roles for an array of Hollywood acting talent, including John Cusack, Andy Garcia, James Gandolfini, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Benicio del Toro, Raquel Welch, Sidney Poitier, Lou Diamond Phillips, Hector Elizondo, River Phoenix, CCH Pounder, Cliff Robertson, Estelle Harris, Michael Madsen and America Ferrera, among others.

Other produced screen credits include Imagen Award winner Tortilla Soup; Hollywood Pictures' Money For Nothing; Gotta Kick It Up! for the Disney Channel; Columbia Pictures' Little Nikita; Flight of Fancy for Showtime, Bad Hurt for Netflix, and Race for HBO.

Tom Musca's debut comedic novel, Formerly Cool, written with Jay Abramowitz, is assigned reading in college classrooms. Additionally, Musca was the Moseley Fellow for Creative Writing at Pomona College, a guest lecturer at the Sundance Institute, NYU, USC, AFI, and has conducted MPAA producing and screenwriting workshops on four continents. He serves as the head of the MFA screenwriting track at the University of Miami where in 2014 he received the Robert and Christine Staub Faculty Excellence Award.

- IMDb mini biography by: Margaret Cardillo