Tom Willis is a stage designer and sculptor in Central Kentucky. Memorable designs include Blackbird Dance Theatre's Robando, Afterculture's Trinity, On The Verge's A Doll's House and A Doll's House, Part 2, Kentucky Ballet Theatre's Sleeping Beauty, Athens West Theatre Company's 33 Variations and To Kill a Mockingbird, Transylvania University Theater's The Moors and Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches, and UK Opera Theatre's Silent Night.
Beyond the stage, Tom maintains a multidisciplinary art practice spanning sculpture, digital collage, stained glass, ceramics, woodworking, and other material-based mediums. His work draws on experimentation, repurposed materials, and the intersections of craft, design, and storytelling. Based in Lexington, he teaches theatre, pottery, stained glass, and woodworking, with a particular interest in making creative skills accessible to others and fostering the confidence to experiment, build, and make work of their own.