Thomas Babe was born and raised in upstate New York, went to Harvard and Yale Law School, and studied in England. 
He has received grants from the Guggenheim, 
Rockefeller, and CBS foundations and the NEA. 
He has lived for the past 19 years with the playwright Neal Bell. 

Thomas Babe's plays Rebel Women, A Prayer for My Daughter, Taken in Marriage, Fathers and Sons, Salt Lake City Skyline, and Buried Inside Extra were first produced by Joseph Papp 
and the New York Shakespeare Festival. 

Several new plays premiered in California, 
including Demon Wine at Los Angeles Theatre Center, Planet Fires 
at the Mark Taper, and Great Day in the Morning (winner of a DramaLogue Best Play Award) at South Coast Repertory Co. 

He has also been produced in many other theaters throughout the United States, as well as in England, Ireland, Canada, Germany, and Holland. In the musical theater, he wrote the text for Twyla Tharp's When We Were Very Young and librettos for Call The Children Home (music and lyrics by Milred Kayden) 
and Tesla (music by Carson Kievman). 

He has been active in children's theater, creating a half-dozen pieces with and for kids from the 52nd Street Project, 
and Scared Silly for the Sundance Children's Theater Festival. 
He has also written for film and television.