Dumbledore Is So Gay

Jack loves Harry Potter. He's also in love with his best-friend Ollie. But getting the guy is going to need a little magic. A witty and poignant, queer coming-of-age story with time travel.

Creative Team

Writer: Robert Holtom
Director: Tom Wright
Designer: Natalie Johnson
Composer: Peter Wilson
Lighting Designer: Rory Beaton
Movement Director: Rachael Nanyonjo
Associate Director: Jennifer Davies
Assistant Director: Amber Sinclair-Case
Stage Manager: Tamasin Cook (Southwark Playhouse) & Pip Snow (Pleasance Theatre)

Producer: Natalie Chan (Vault Festival) & Hannah Elsy (Southwark Playhouse, Pleasance Theatre)
General Manager: Grace Dickson (Pleasance Theatre)
Venue: Southwark Playhouse, Pleasance Theatre & Vault Festival

Original Cast: Alex Britt, Charlotte Dowding & Max Percy
Southwark Playhouse Cast: Alex Britt, Charlotte Dowding & Martin Sarreal

Press Quotes

‘Funny, tragic and full of hope … Tom Wright’s smooth direction gives a perky crispness to the storytelling’
The Guardian

‘Uproariously funny, uplifting play, that will undoubtedly touch the hearts of anyone who sees it’
Theatre Weekly

‘Tom Wright manages to merge moments of dancelike elation with those of quiet reflection’
A Younger Theatre

‘An absolute gem … tight, zippy direction, keeps the gags coming fast, but also lets the play pause and breathe’
British Theatre

Published by Playdead Press

*Winner of Origins Award for Outstanding New Work
*Nominated Off West End Award for Best Leading Actor
*Nominated Off West End Award for Best Supporting Actress
*Nominated Off West End Award for Best Supporting Actor
*Nominated Off West End Award for Best Lighting

Blowhole

Meet "Him". Gay, 24 and aspiring to be Billie Piper circa 1999. For now, he's still single, still horny and still handing out free copies of Time Out to Martine McCutcheon outside Clapham Common tube. Also, his Dad is still very much dead. Rock bottom's never been so outrageous.

Creative Team

Writer & Performer: Benjamin Salmon
Director: Tom Wright
Associate Director: Matt Hassall
Designer: Christianna Mason
Lighting Designer: Robbie Butler
Sound Designer: Roly Botha
Movement Director: Rachael Nanyonjo
Stage Manager: Lauren Lambert Moore (Edinburgh) Abbii Clark (London)
Producer: DEM Productions
Venue: Soho Theatre & Pleasance Theatre

Press Quotes

‘Imaginative storytelling and magical theatre does not come any better than this … One of the best self-penned monologues I’ve seen’
Boyz

‘Salacious and bonkers’
QR

‘There’s plenty to love, plenty to laugh about, and a heartfelt story that twists and turns in ways you will not expect’
Theatre Weekly

‘A reckoning with sincere, mature emotions – grief, anger, love – awaits and Salmon balances all this credibly, while retaining a wicked glint in his eye.’
The Scotsman

Sent To Cov

A queer women nervously brings her loving but boujee partner back to her hometown of Coventry for the very first time.

Creative Team

Writer: Tom Wright
Director: Tom Wright
Producers: Darius Shu & Tom Wright
Director of Photography: Darius Shu
Camera Assistant: Jade Jenkins
Gaffer: Mat Cooper
Sound Recordist: Nick Sounidis
Make Up Artist: Simi Ola
Production Manager: Jennifer Davis

Online Editor: Lex Balcolme
Colourist: Megan Lee
Sound Designer and Dubbing Mixer: Jane Lo
Music Composer: Peter Wilson
Script Consultants: Margaret Glover & Rikki Beadle-Blair

Commissioning Editor for Sky Arts: Vanessa Woodard
Executive Producers for Shoot Festival: Jennifer Davis & Paul O Donnell
Executive Producers for The Space: Sima Gonsai & Fiona Morris

Cast: Sam Butters, Comfort Fabian, Kimisha Lewis, Chanel McKenzie & Aimee Powell

*Premiered on Sky Arts national broadcast
*Selected for BFI Network Festival at Warwick Arts Centre
*Shortlisted for a Broadcast Digital Award

Stockholm

A young gay man embarks on an unusual first date in a conquest to take control of his past.

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Creative Team

Writer: Tom Wright
Director: Tom Wright
Producer: Darius Shu
Director of Photography: Darius Shu
Camera Assistant: Holly Smyth
Lighting Assistant: Ekin Can Bayrakdar
Sound Recordist: Matt Senuik
Makeup and Hair Artist: Allison Edwards
Production Manager: Scarlet Wilderink

Editor: Darius Shu
Colourist: Karol Cybulski @ CHEAT
Post Colour Grading Producer: Carla Thomas @ CHEAT
Sound Designer: Eliran Sivan
Music Composer: Tom Foskett-Barnes

Cast: Rikki Bleadle-Blair, Alex Britt & Max Percy

Press Quotes

‘Strikingly lensed … showcasing a brilliant, fearless performance’
The Queer Review

‘In his careful control of how much the viewer understands, Wright shows an impressively nuanced engagement with the psychological issues at hand’
Indy Reviews

‘Heartfelt. Captures the story of so many victims’
UK Film Review

‘Powerful short film’
Cinerama Film

Festivals & Awards

*Premiered at the BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival
*Selected for the LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival
*Winner ‘Best Cinematography’ at the LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival
*Selected for the Indianapolis LGBTQ+ Film Festival
*Selected for the Miami OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival
*Selected for Mixtape Festival London

Sirens

1942. A sharp-tongued drag queen attempts to romance a black American GI in the cellar of her East End pub. As enemy bombers cloud the skies above, a motley collection of local characters beat a hasty retreat to their door for shelter, where life (and love) gets complicated.

White Lies

Meet Leo, an earnest, embarrassingly privileged young white man. Desperate to be a socially responsible working actor, his original sin is being born the son of Britain’s most notorious right-wing television personality… When Leo lies about his name to join a queer multiracial feminist theatre ensemble, his two worlds collide to hilariously cringeworthy consequences.

Creative Team

Writer: Tom Wright
Director: Tom Wright
Designer: Luke W. Robson
Lighting Designer: Jai Morjaria
Composer & Sound Designer: Nicola Chang
Dramaturg: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Fight Director: Kiel O’Shea
Stage Manager: Roo Daya
Venue: Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre

Sirens Cast: Harry Durcan, Brayden Emmanuel, Elly Fenton, Holly Martin, Eion Mullan, Ewan Orton, Nia Rees & Elliot Stribley

White Lies Cast: Anabelle Blake, Joseph Dowling, Sam Holis, Ria Marshall, Sabrina Puri, Isaiah St Jean, Millie Wilkie & Isa Wood

Tumble Tuck

Daisy's swimming the relay, but her legs still jiggle and her front crawl is 'a bit f***ing feminine'. Daisy shouldn't be here, but she is.

Creative Team

Writer & Performer: Sarah Milton
Director: Tom Wright
Lighting Designer: Rory Beaton
Composer & Sound Designer: Harry Blake
Producer: Helena Doughty
Venues: Underbelly Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, King's Head Theatre and Wilderness Festival for Old Vic New Voices

Press Quotes

'A compelling story, deftly told'
The Stage

'There's so much to love about this show … Tom Wright’s fine production never misses a beat'
The Scotsman

'Energetic and engaging'
Theatrefullstop

'Beautifully woven, a poetic demonstration'
WhatsOnStage

Published by Methuen Drama

*Nominated Off West End Award for Best Performance Piece.

Boy On Canvas

Who is the beautiful Thai boy in Jimmy and Dan’s new painting? And why is he speaking directly to Jimmy, pulling blithely at the threads of race, age and sex from which he has knotted his life?

Creative Team

Writer: Stephen Hoo
Director: Tom Wright
Cinematographer: Suki Mok
Editor: Suki Mok
Producer: New Earth Productions

Cast: Vincent Lai, Max Percy & Malcom Sinclair

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The Invisible Hand

American banker Nick Bright knows that his freedom comes at a price. Confined to a cell in rural Pakistan, every second counts. Who will decide his fate? His captors, or the whims of the market?

Creative Team

Writer: Ayad Akhtar
Director: Indhu Rubasingham
Assistant Director: Tom Wright
Designer: Lizzie Clachan
Lighting Designer: Oliver Fenwick
Sound Designer: Alexander Caplen
Casting Director: Bryony Barnett CDG
Voice and Dialect Coach: Daniele Lydon
Fight Director: RC-Annie LTD.
Costume Supervisor: Megan Keegan
Venue: Kiln Theatre

Cast: Tony Jayawardena, Scott Karim, Daniel Lapaine & Sid Sagar

Press Quotes

‘Edge-of-your-seat theatre’
The Telegraph

‘Fascinating case study of power’
The Stage

‘A proper political thriller, wound tight as a tripwire in Indhu Rubasingham’s palpitating production’
WhatsOnStage

‘Indhu Rubasingham excels in her directorial signatures of pacy staging combined with clarity of narrative and characterisation’
The Guardian

Legendary Children in the House of Fierce

Can the all-singing, all-voguing, House of Fierce pull it together, or will the Legendary Children be torn apart? Shakespeare's timeless themes of disguise and hiding are sampled and re-mixed in a glittering mash-up of 21st century queer subcultures.

Creative Team

Writer: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Director: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Associate Director: Tom Wright
Venue: Theater de Meervaart, Amsterdam

Cast: Rikki Beadle-Blair, Lewis Brown, Andre Dongelmans, Raymi Sambo, Ritzah Statia, Kane Surrey & Jonny Cox Vinell

The Method

A group of drama students are assigned the task of doing everything it takes to totally inhabit characters that are the polar opposite to their own personas, with hilarious, shocking and profoundly moving consequences.

Creative Team

Writer: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Director: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Associate Director: Tom Wright
Venue: ALRA, London

2.1

A collaborative contemporary dance and physical theatre piece with Kansaze Dance Theatre, exploring gender and inequality within the corporate world.

Creative Team

Writer: Emma Dennis-Edwards
Director & Choreographer: Rachael Nanyonjo
Associate Director: Tom Wright
Venues: Rich Mix, Camden People’s Theatre and The Cryer, Sutton