Leeds, 24

Identified by the West Yorkshire Playhouse

Tom is a dramatist. He graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2005. His first play, Risky & Fluke, won the Sunday Times NSDF Award and recently finished a tour of Europe. Tom’s second play, Rumour and the Rope Trick, premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Autumn last year. His radio play Things To Do Before You Die was aired on BBC Radio 4 to great acclaim, the film version of the play will be shot this winter. His most recent play, Company Along the Mile, is under development at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Tom is also currently engaged in co-writing (with Mark Catley) the opening two episodes of the forthcoming series of casualty for the BBC. Tom’s undoubted strength as a writer is in his ability to draw vivid, humorous yet believable characters and place them in difficult moral situations and his work explores how Mr. or Mrs. everyman react under extreme pressure.

“Why do people always laugh when someone gets hurt? My Grandma died when a piano fell on her- I didn’t laugh. I’d almost learned how to play Moonlight Sonata.”