Tom Jackson Greaves

Tom trained at London Contemporary Dance School.
Tom creates diverse, cross-art-form work with movement and ensemble at it’s heart. He is the Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Plymouth and an Associate Artist at the Watermill Theatre. This summer he will direct and choreograph a re-imagining of seminal musical FAME at Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Work as director and choreographer includes The Book Thief (Prince of Wales, West-End); Tom Fletcher’s The Creakers (Theatre Royal Plymouth, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank); All That Glitters (UOE Arts and Culture Commission, also writer); Whistle Down The Wind (Watermill Theatre. Nominated for TMA Award for Best Musical); Head Over Heels (Hope Mill Manchester); The Art of Illusion (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); The Jungle Book (Watermill Theatre, also adapter); High Fidelity (Turbine Theatre); Snowflake (Lowry Theatre); Brother (Southwark Playhouse); Run For Your Life (Kneehigh); Neptunalia (Cscape Dance Company); Seven Deadly Sins (UK Tour); Vanity Fowl (Sadler’s Wells).

Work as creative director includes: Nikita Kuzmin Midnight Dancer (UK Tour); An Evening With Sir Matthew Bourne and Dame Darcey Bussell, The Key, The Star Who Danced, An Evening With Dawn French and Dame Darcey Bussell (Theatre Royal Plymouth).

Work as choreographer includes: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (National Theatre); The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Minerva Theatre); Amélie the Musical (Criterion Theatre/The Other Palace/Watermill Theatre/UK Tour. Nominated for
Olivier Award for Best New Musical); Smoosh, The Virtuous Circle (Paraorchestra); The Book Thief (Leicester Curve/Coventry Belgrade); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK Tour); Rent (Hope Mill Manchester); Miracle on 34th Street, Paint Your Wagon, Fiddler On The Roof (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Sweet Charity (Watermill Theatre); Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Manchester/Leehaerang Theatre, Seoul); Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Southampton Theatres/UK Tour); Teddy (Watermill Theatre/The Vaults/UK Tour); The Dancing Frog (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: My Sons A Queer (WestEnd); King John (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Da Vinci Code (UK Tour); The Audience (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Blue Door (Ustinov Studio Bath); Macbeth, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night, The Borrowers, Romeo and Juliet (Watermill Theatre); Boudica, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare’s Globe); Frankenstein (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Ostrich Boys (Coventry Belgrade); So Here We Are (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Glass Menagerie (Headlong); When We Were Women (Orange Tree Theatre); The Crocodile (MIF).

Short Film includes: The Neon Shadow (Kneehigh, Director).

Awards include: New Adventures Choreographer Award (2012), Marion North Mentorship Award (2014), Broadway World Best Choreography Award (2018), Industry Minds Creative Award Nomination (2021).

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