Tommy Nohilly made his playwriting debut Off-Broadway with Blood from a Stone for The New Group. The play, starring Ethan Hawke, was Nohilly’s first and his thesis play for Columbia. It opened to rave reviews from The New York Times, Slant, and others. Nohilly—an ex-Marine who has also worked as a security guard, waiter, bouncer, and bartender—has also acted in films and TV series. He plays Bert in Boardwalk Empire and has appeared in the films The Believer (2001), XX/XY (2002), Reign Over Me (2007) and Knight and Day (2010).