After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin's prestigious Plan II Honors program, with emphases in both English Literature and Film, Tom moved to Los Angeles where he has worked steadily writing, directing, editing and acting. (And, for quite a while, waiting tables.) He was hired to adapt a script for Academy Award Winner Morgan Freeman's production company, Revelations, a screenplay made into the film "Under Suspicion" starring Freeman and Academy Award Winner Gene Hackman. The screenplay was nominated for an Edgar Award.

Co-writer of the summer 2026 release "Young Washington", Provost was the writer / director of "The Presence". The genre-twisting ghost story stars Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino, Shane West, Golden Globe Nominee Justin Kirk, and Tony Curran. After winning numerous awards on the festival circuit including Best Picture and Best Director, Lionsgate picked up the movie which was released in Fall 2011.

A professor of both film directing and screen acting at Chapman University, Provost works steadily as a script doctor and consultant.

He also teaches the popular series of classes on filmmaking called "Cinema Language: The Art Of Storytelling", both in Los Angeles and around the country, often in conjunction with Mark Stolaroff's "No Budget Film School".

You can find some of his writing at onfoodandfilm.com and his website is cinema language.org.

He also founded and runs the charity bagsandgrace.com, an outreach that provides bags of food, clothing and sundries to the unhoused of Los Angeles County.

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