Tom grew up in Wokingham in Berkshire and spent his early years performing with community drama and music groups.
He trained in Music with Theatre Studies at the University of Huddersfield and entered employment as an arts professional upon graduation in 2002.
He now works throughout the United Kingdom as an actor, music composer and theatre director.
Tom’s work as an actor includes Blackeyed Theatre’s acclaimed national tours of Oh
What A Lovely War, The Cherry Orchard and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; pioneering
site-
works Don’t Look Back with dreamthinkspeak and 1000 Revolutions Per Moment with Periplum; and educational drama in primary, secondary and special needs schools with Bitesize Theatre. He has also played in pantomime for various companies.
His musical compositions include full length Arthurian epic Avalon for Artemis Studios; original songs and music to Henry V, The Tempest and Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood; for Christmas Peter Pan and Beauty and the Beast; and several orchestrations, including the national revival of Oh What A Lovely War. He has also worked as a musical director.
As a theatre director, his shows include Blackeyed’s innovative staging of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a large cast outdoor spectacle production of The Tempest and also small ensemble work.
He is proud to have directed South Hill Park’s 25th Anniversary production The Importance of Being Oscar, which toured the UK and Ireland in a production by Original Theatre Company.
Tom regularly works as an improvising musician for disability arts charity InnerSense and occasionally as a script writer. He lives in Bracknell in Berkshire.
Photography by Mark Holliday.