Tom Musca

He first came to attention as the writer and producer of Stand and Deliver in 1988.[3] The film's star, Edward James Olmos, was nominated for an Oscar for his performance and Stand and Deliver[4] went on to receive six Independent Spirit Awards including Best Picture and Best Screenplay honors for Musca.[5] The film is preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.[6]

He has gone on to write, produce and direct for film, television and the theatre.[7]

Musca is head of the MFA Screenwriting track and Associate Professor of Professional Practice at the University of Miami School of Communication.[8]

Musca was a co-writer and producer for Tortilla Soup[9] starring Hector Elizondo and Raquel Welch, Money for Nothing with John Cusack, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Benicio del Toro. He was a writer for Gotta Kick It Up! starring America Ferrara,[10] and wrote and directed Melting Pot aka Race[11] starring Paul Rodriguez.

Most recently, he wrote, produced and directed[12] Chateau Vato, a rags to riches comedy set in Miami starring Rodriguez.[13]

On March 9, 2023, he premiered Dying To Direct,[14] a short film based on one of his short stories at the 40th Annual Miami Film Festival,[15] which he wrote, produced and co-directed.

• BA Rutgers - 1973[2]
• MFA UCLA - 1981[1]

• Little Nikita (story) 1988[16]
• Stand and Deliver (writer/producer) 1988[4]
• Money for Nothing (writer/producer) 1993[17]
• Melting Pot (film) aka Race (writer/director) 1998[11]
• Flight of Fancy aka Facing Fear (writer/producer/second unit director) 2000[18]
• Tortilla Soup (writer, producer) 2001[9]
• Gotta Kick it Up! Writer (2001)[19]
• Make Love Great Again (producer, additional writing, actor) 2018[20]
• Chateau Vato (writer/director/producer) 2020[21]
• Amaraica (producer) 2021[22]
• Dying to Direct[23](writer, director, producer) 2023

• Tom Musca at IMDb