Tom studied at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music, where he is a recipient of the ARAM award. 

Credits include: Caroline or Change, Show Boat (West End); Pinocchio, The Light Princess (National Theatre); The Empress (Royal Shakespeare Company/Kneehigh); Flowers for Mrs Harris, Fiddler on the Roof, Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre); Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Anything Goes, The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible); Wah! Wah! Girls (Sadler’s Wells/Kneehigh); Abomination: A DUP Opera (Lyric Belfast); Floyd Collins (Wilton's Music Hall), Evita (Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia) 

As Composer: The Butterfly Lion (Minerva Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Chichester Festival Youth Theatre).