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Born
in Brooklyn New York, Tom Riccobono moved to the Pocono Mountains, PA. at the age of
3. He started his professional music career while attending Churchman’s
Business College in Easton, PA. Within 1 a year, Tom working as a full time
entertainer. During this period he did everything from being a ski race
announcer to singing the Star Spangled Banner at The Pocono 500 NASCAR
race. Tom has also hosted several major Pocono music
events, festivals and concerts, all while playing hey rides, kids parties,
weddings and lots and lots of bars.
Of the many different paths and formats taken through the years, the
“one man show” has been the most successful. Performing 300 shows a year
for
more then 2 decades.
After 10 years of heavy duty Pocono-based touring Tom moved to Hells
Kitchens on the west side of Manhattan with the desire to expand his
career and
study voice full time with famed vocal coaches
Don and Marty Lawrence (Annie Lennox, Bon Jovi, Bono,
Christina
Aguilera, Mick Jagger)
During this time he also studied commercial acting as well as performance
with legendary entertainment agent and acting coach
Maxine Marx
(daughter of Chico Marx) “The
Marx Brothers”. Also at this time, he
studied directly with Second City Improv guru
Martin de Maat
(Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Tina Fey)
Tom is currently living in NYC and performs mostly a "one man show" full
time in Greenwich Village and the tri state area. As of June 2002
Tom
has been performing stand up comedy regularly at
Caroline's,
Comedy Cellar, The
Comic Strip,
Gotham Comedy Club,
Stand Up NY,
New York Comedy
Club
and
Broadway Comedy Club,
The Brokerage,
sharing the stage and billing with some of the
countries best & biggest names in comedy:
Eddie Brill,
Jim Gaffigan,
Judy Gold,
Al Lubel,
Jim Norton,
Chris Rock, Todd Lynn, Steve Mashall,
Kevin Downey Jr., Carl Labove, Judah Freedlander,
Dave Attell, Rich Vos & Laurie Kilmartin just to name a few.
In October, 2004, Tom was cast as a
regular extra on
Saturday Night Live
& Conan O'Brien appearing with
Jude Law,
Liam Neeson, Lindsay Lohan,
& "Triumph" the Dog in various skits & sketches
Current Corporate clients include Merrill Lynch, EGR International, Ernest
and Julio Gallo, Huffman La Roach, Milltronics Manufacturing Co., Locus
Ridge Quarry and The
Tropicana (Atlantic City).
There is only one goal in mind: To keep
evolving as a performer and as a show; one that is out on the road, where
riders fly high
and broken hearts heal.
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