In 2016 Tom launched Mr. Thing: ‘the live cult comedy TV show show.’ A live event, streamed production and online sketch show. Mr. Thing has toured festivals and theatres in the UK receiving both audience and critical acclaim, as well as being optioned for television development earlier this year.Tom has sat as creative director and head writer on this project, alongside his business partner and technical director Owen Visser, throughout.

In 2013 Tom moved freelance and developed a successful career as a creative director, writer and director.In that time Tom has developed campaigns for Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Captain Morgan, O2, Audi and Kellogg’s, written for and directed Mo Gilligan, Jimmy Carr and Claudia Winkleman, developed online shows for Netflix, Lego and Felix and co-wrote ‘Potted Sherlock’ a theatre show that enjoyed sell-out seasons around the world including a run in the West End.

Tom set up Mr. Tom Productions to bring all the storytellers, filmmakers, photographers, writers he had met into one place to create together. Since then Mr. Tom has won multiple awards at a variety of festivals for their work across theatre, television, online, commercials and music videos, where recently they released a feature length visual album for Jack Garratt.Tom has sat as executive producer and Creative Director on every project.

In house director and script writer/creative at VCCPTom joined VCCP in 2010 at the wake of advertisers looking for online content. He quickly took up a lead creative role in their content division, writing and directing most of their online work during a time where creativity and inventiveness was a necessity for a brand to survive online.From here Tom developed a keen understanding of how to develop and lead multi-platform online campaigns and developed his writing to short form promos for online.

Whilst in his final year studying Film & Television at Brunel University, Tom joined Global Dawn, a start up that developed online platforms for big brands. Tom learned quickly how to adopt and help develop key brand styles, values and tone of voice and applied this to a number of productions which he helmed.

At the end of Tom’s first year at Brunel he took on a role as Edit Assistant at Monkey Kingdom. Here he worked with editors and directors to help pull together some of their flagship shows, develop and cut promos for each one and to put together pitch reels for new projects.