Biography
Thomas A. Walsh is a production designer whose credits include feature films, television series, IMAX documentaries and stage productions. He trained at the California Institute of the Arts, receiving a B.F.A. in theatre design in 1977 after graduating from Hollywood High School.
He served as the originating production designer on the ABC series Desperate Housewives (2004–2012), designing the pilot and 84 episodes, and received an Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award for the work. Other television credits include My So-Called Life (1994), Buddy Faro (for which he won a Primetime Emmy), In Plain Sight and The Client List (2012). Film work encompasses Vampires (1998), Hush (1998), The Handmaid's Tale (1990) and art direction on The Majestic (2001).
On Broadway he designed the Tony Award-winning production of Children of a Lesser God and the original staging of Zoot Suit. He is a former president of the Art Directors Guild and a founding co-chair of its Archives and Research Library.
