Tom Carey (2) (1951–)

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Tom Carey was born in Los Angeles. His father, Harry Carey, Jr., and his grandfathers, Harry Carey and Paul Fix, appear in some of the most iconic American films (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Red River, The Searchers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Bad Seed, Giant). Tom studied acting with Jack Garfein and Stella Adler, and moved to NYC in 1977. He appears in several feature films and TV shows, among them Plaza Suite, The Day of the Locust, and The Blue Knight. In the 1970s and 80s he fronted for the punk rock band, “The Beeks,” and was literary assistant to poets James Schuyler and John Ashbery. He earned a degree in Spanish at Columbia University. In 1988 he became a Franciscan brother of the society of St. Francis, an Anglican religious order. He served for thirteen years at St. Elizabeth’s Friary in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2003. While living in Brooklyn, he ran a theater program for inner city kids for six years, and taught poetry in New York City’s public schools for a decade. He also worked with youth and young adults at Episcopal parishes in Richmond Hill and Astoria, Queens. His book of poems Desire (Painted Leaf Press 1997) was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He currently lives at a Franciscan Friary in Los Angeles, California, where he is the vicar an Episcopal Church near downtown L.A .