Tom trained at London Contemporary Dance School. He is an Associate Artist at the Watermill Theatre. In 2012 Tom was awarded the New Adventures Choreographer Award and in 2015 he won the Marion North Mentorship Award.
Work as director and choreographer includes Whistle Down The Wind (Watermill Theatre); The Jungle Book (Watermill Theatre, also adapted); Snowflake (Lowry Theatre); Brother (Southwark Playhouse); High Fidelity (Turbine Theatre); Run For Your Life (Kneehigh); Neptunalia (Cscape Dance Company); Seven Deadly Sins (UK Tour); Vanity Fowl (Sadler’s Wells); Extraordinary Women (GSA).
Work as choreographer includes Amélie the Musical (Criterion Theatre/The Other Palace/Watermill Theatre/UK Tour. Nominated for Olivier Award for Best New Musical); Macbeth, Sweet Charity (Watermill Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK Tour); Rent (Hope Mill Theatre); Miracle on 34th Street, Paint Your Wagon, Fiddler On The Roof (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Manchester/Leehaerang Theatre, Seoul. Broadway World Best Choreography Award); Zog and the Flying Doctors (UK Tour); Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Southampton Theatres/UK Tour); Teddy (Watermill Theatre/The Vaults/UK Tour); The Dancing Frog, Zog the Dragon (Kneehigh); The Life (Southwark Playhouse); Peter and the Starcatcher (Royal and Derngate) LIFT (Soho Theatre) and music videos and live performances for C. Duncan, Boy George and Clare Maguire.
Works as movement director includes King John (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Da Vinci Code (UK Tour); Smoosh (Paraorchestra); Conquest Of The South Pole (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); The Audience (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Blue Door (Ustinov Studio Bath); The Borrowers, Romeo and Juliet (Watermill Theatre); Boudica, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare’s Globe); Frankenstein (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Glass Menagerie (Headlong); When We Were Women (Orange Tree Theatre); The Crocodile (MIF).
Short Film includes The Neon Shadow (Kneehigh/The Joy Club).