Opera
One Drop (in development, American Opera Projects and Bare Opera, 2024-25); Firesongs (2022) produced by Bare Opera and National Sawdust at Chelsea Factory; The Sandman, an opera based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann with David Herskovits and Douglas Langworthy (2002); Denmark Vesey, based on the attempted slave revolt in Charleston, SC (1990). The concert aria "Up Then, You Virgins," from Penthesilea was performed at Juilliard and at the BAM Next Wave Festival in the 2012-13 season. Operas for babies: Otoyotoy (2017), and Camille's Rainbow (2022).
Choir
Celestial Fire (commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of NYC; Radio Radiance, 2013) and Behold the Star, available on New World Records and published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Orchestra
Charleston Mix (commissioned by the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra), Double Rainbow (2017, commissioned by the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra; chamber version for pianoSonoma); four commissions from Carnegie Hall's LinkUp! program (Come To Play, Drumlines, To Make Words Sing, Away I Fly; 2010-2012), My Song Is A Fire, a cantata for orchestra, chorus and soloists (Fairfield County Chorale, 2011), Searching for Kristallnacht (a chamber oratorio, 2009), Three Sabbaths for chorus and chamber orchestra with text by Wendell Berry (2006).
Dance
Other Marches (1992) Nocturnal Rondo (1993) for ZviDance; The Reclamation (2009), Noise + Speed (2008) and It's All True (2007) The Short-Cut (2005), for Hilary Easton & Co.
Chamber
String Quartets 1 - 6 (for the Charleston Symphony String Quartet, Navona Records 2024); String Quartets 1 & 2; two works for piano, four hands: One Silken Thread (commissioned by Bay Chamber Concerts for Jeffrey Ziegler, Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung) and Sketches of Venasque (piano solo) and Tiny Bits of Outrageous Love (for Michael and Jessica Chow Shinn).
Theater
The Tempest (Target Margin Theater); The American Plan (Broadway and Off-Broadway); Buffalo Gal (Primary Stages, Studio Arena Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival); Mamba's Daughters (Target Margin Theater, Spoleto Festival USA); Galileo (Yale Repertory Theater); The Guest Lecturer (George Street Playhouse); A Streetcar Named Desire, A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center); Pericles, The Marriage of Bette & Boo, Twelfth Night (Center Stage, Baltimore); Hard Times, The Hostage, Twelfth Night (Portland Stage, Maine); Egypt, Mother Courage, Measure for Measure, The Venetian Twins, The Barber of Seville, and When Ladies Battle (Off-Broadway).
Film
In 1990 Thomas created and arranged music for The Lunch Date (winner of the Academy Award and Palme D'Or for Best Short Film).
Arrangements
Afram ou la belle swita by Edmund Thorton Jenkins, cabaret version of the operetta for Spoleto Festival USA; Suite from Afram by Edmund Thorton Jenkins for the Louisiana Philharmonic.
Other Awards
1998 Obie Award and Drama Desk nomination for the score and musical direction for Mamba's Daughters.