The purpose of my existence is to excite, provoke, intrigue, entice and entertain an international audience through the many different languages of theatre and film. As an altermodern Writer and Director, I want to create engaging stories that are dealing with subjects that matters, both on a social and political level. Subjects that encompasses the bigger questions and adds on new perspectives of the world we are living in.

My aim is to reach the global community and develop new and innovative theatre, film and cross-media formats that are trying to extend the conventional limitations of how audience-oriented storytelling might have been seen before. I want to use the elements of dialogue and narrative to be able to tell stories that excites, engages and pushes the audience experience to a new level.

Like Enemies of the State

A thought-provoking and visually engaging play based on the reallife stories of three child soldiers in the Democratic Republic o...

Bring the Bucket

Chuggers (street fundraisers) armed with buckets are as common a feature of London’s streets as black cabs and red buses. These ...

Do We Do The Right Thing?

For 4,5 years an English market town witnesses the repatriation of 355 dead military personnel. The average age was 22. The voices...

Invisible

Written especially for the human rights charity Restless Beings, Invisible is an uncompromising indictment of the kidnapping of w...

Some work 2005-2013

Tommy has almost 10 years of professional experience as a Director, Playwright and Projection/Set Designer from London, Stockholm, St Petersburg and Budapest. He is also a founding member and the Artistic Director of BeFrank Theatre Company. Originally from Stockholm, he moved to London in 2010 to further develop his directing skills at the Central School of Speech and Drama. As his postgraduate research, Tommy explored the concept of Cross-border Theatre (focusing mainly on international companies in London and Berlin) and as his final Masters-project he examined the possibilities and problems of “Communicating Human Rights through Theatre” in theory and practice. Both of these subjects are very present in his current practice, and his research is ongoing.

In 2011 Tommy travelled together with a Human Rights Researcher to the heart of Democratic Republic of the Congo, to carry out extensive research for a new play. In an attempt to understand the causes rather than the consequences of this ongoing conflict he was able to expose some of the social and political realities facing these children. After interviewing former child soldiers, street children, local and international NGOs, UN representatives and the Congolese government, he started to write ’Like Enemies of the State’ based upon these eyewitness accounts.

Tommy was awarded with the Andrew Sandrew’s Scholarship 2012 for young promising artists in Sweden.

DIRECTING/WRITING CREDITS: ‘Like Enemies of the State’, New Diorama, London & Stadsteatern, Stockholm (2013)  ⎢ ‘Do We Do The Right Thing’, Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury & Rosemary Branch Theatre, London ⎢ ’Bring the Bucket’, Rich Mix, London (2013) ⎢ ‘The Cost of Eggs’, The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton (2012) ⎢ ’Invisible’, The Lanterns Studio Theatre, London (2012) ⎢ ’Like Enemies of the State’, Pleasance Theatre, London (2011) ⎢ ‘Inter:view’, New Studio, CSSD, London (2011) ⎢ ‘Coexistence’ – Rehearsed Reading, Roundhouse, London (2011) ⎢ ‘Welcome to the City’, Proud Galleries, London (2010) ⎢ ‘Instängd’, TeaterStudio Lederman, Stockholm (2007) ⎢ ‘Jag är Axel von Fersen’, Teater Tribunalen Stockholm (2007) ⎢ ‘Väntsalen’, Boulevardteatern, Stockholm (2005)

PROJECTION/SET/LIGHTING DESIGN CREDITS: ’Damage’, Rich Mix, London (2013) ⎢’A Thousand Miles of History’, The Bussey Building, London, (2013) ⎢ ’Alt.Org’ at, Moderna Dansteatern (MDT), Stockholm (2011) ⎢ ‘The Magnetic Fields’, The University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm (2009) ⎢ ‘Musikalen 1956′, Oscarsteatern, Stockholm (2007) ⎢ ‘Lethe’, MU Theatre, Budapest (2006) ⎢ ‘Minus 48h’, Extrem Modern Dance Company, St Petersburg (2004)

PREVIOUS EDUCATION: Postgraduate studies: MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Central School of Speech and Drama, London ⎢ MA in Screenwriting at Stockholm’s Academy of Dramatic Arts (formerly known as Dramatiska Institutet) ⎢ Diploma in ‘Directing and Scriptwriting for TV/Film’, Medieskolan, Stockholm ⎢ Performance Studies (European & Swedish Theatre History and Practice), Stockholm University ⎢ Diploma in ‘Set Design‘, Folkuniversitet, Stockholm.