In July and August of 2006, Thom created and directed a seven-week theatre training and performance program for a group of fifteen high-school students from Colorado Springs and Woodland Park, CO.  The three-week curriculum of daily training addressed the following performance skills: physical and vocal presence, storytelling, mask and puppet making, rhythm and music, parade and performance.  The final four weeks of the program included nearly sixty performances in over thirty different performance venues ranging from parks to street festivals to malls, camps, and theatres.  The program served three purposes: an education program for its participants, a performance program for the community, and an outreach program for the Colorado Festival of World Theatre.  To find out more about the program or the festival:  www.cfwt.org. 

From January through March of 2006 Thom collaborated with an ensemble of international performers on the creation of a new work based on Primo Levi’s Se Questo Un Uomo (If This is a Man).  His group developed a world of puppets, shadows, music, and humans to tell the story of Primo Levi’s survival at Auschwitz.  The ensemble worked with students at the Moscow Art School and toured to St. Petersburg where they incorporated into the performance a class of puppet-theatre directors at the St. Petersburg School of Puppet Theatre.  

In August and September 2005 Thom worked with a group of 25 international artists and members of the Odin Teatret to create a number of street theatre performances in conjunction with the Festuge Festival in Hostlebro, Denmark.  The Festuge is a two-week theatre festival the Odin holds in honor of its home-town in gratitude for the town’s support.  The Festival included nearly fifty performances with artists from all over the world.  The group's performances included appearances at schools, nursing homes, local shops and businesses, parks, hospitals, and night clubs.