Undetectable Tapa blanda - 2019

Tom Wright is a London based playwright and theatre director, originally from the Midlands. He is currently the Artist Development Coordinator at The Old Vic. He has participated in the Royal Court, Soho Theatre and Finborough Theatre's playwright groups, is a member of Mercury Musical Development's Advanced Writers' Lab, as well as working with Old Vic New Voices. Tom's debut play My Dad's Gap Year will be presented at the Park Theatre in February 2019. It was first performed at the Tristan Bates Theatre, before being developed with Rikki Beadle-Blair for Team Angelica and revived at the Bush Theatre, London. Tom's second play I Ain't Dumb was also developed with Team Angelica and supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. It premiered at Theatre Royal Stratford East the following year. Tom was commissioned to adapt Jamie O'Neill's novel 'At Swim, Two Boys' into stage musical Rebel Song which was nominated for the Stiles & Drewe Best New Song Prize, secured funding from Arts Council England and was selected as part of From Page To Stage to be performed at Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Other Palace. Short work includes Broadcast (Old Vic New Voices), Three Sunrises (St. James Theatre) and I, We, Me (Vaults Festival). His next full-length play Undetectable will premier at the King's Head Theatre in March 2019.