Thomas J. Whelan is a Line Producer and Unit Production Manager of motion pictures, television series and commercials.

Based in New York, Tom works throughout the metropolitan area, including New Jersey and Connecticut. He has also worked on location in Montreal, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, DC.

Tom has worked with producers Michael Hausman, Nick Wechsler, Christine Vachon and Ted Hope; with directors Milos Forman, Richard Pearce, Peter Yates, Barry Levinson and Jonathan Demme; and with writer-directors Wes Anderson, David Mamet, Paul Haggis, Mary Harron, Steve Buscemi, Todd Solondz, and Robert Pulcini & Shari Berman.

As the Unit Production Manager of "Blue Bloods," the hit CBS Television series starring Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg, Tom supervised the day-to-day operations of the Pilot and 21 hour-long episodes, in the studio and on location in New York City.

Other recent production-managing credits include: A Little Help, the award-winning independent feature written and directed by Michael J. Weithorn (creator of King of Queens) and starring Jenna Fischer (The Office); and Last Night, the new feature by writer-director Massy Tadjedin. Filmed in New York, Last Night stars Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington, and was released by Tribeca Films.

Tom was Assistant Unit Production Manager of "You Don't Know Jack," Barry Levinson's HBO production featuring Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian. John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Danny Huston also star in this multi-Emmy winning feature-length movie.

As Line Producer, Tom developed New York budgets and production plans for Cinemuerte, the Killer Films production of Jeff Lieberman's original screenplay, to star John Turturro and Gael Garcia Bernal.  He also worked on early development of How to Seduce Difficult Women, for Quadrant Entertainment, and has done preliminary boards and budgets for a number of projects.

An alumni of Columbia University (MFA, Screenwriting and Directing), Tom taught Location Scouting and Managing at Quinnipiac University, and has been a guest speaker at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.