Thom Tuck

Biography

Thom Tuck is an actor, writer and comedian, most recently seen in DOM The Play at Assembly Rooms during the Edinburgh Fringe (Bill Kenwright // Turbine Creatives), Shutters: A Lesbian Rock Opera for which he received an Offie Nomination for Best Supporting Performance In A Musical, and playing Hamish in the national tour of ‘The Play What I Wrote’ which was televised over Christmas 2022 on BBC4.

Television work includes The Crown (Netflix), Fresh Meat (Channel 4), Babylon (Channel 4), We Are Mongrels (BBC Three), Drifters (Channel 4) and Horrible Histories (CBBC). His work on the latter’s Shakespeare special helped the team win a BAFTA. Theatre includes Death of A Salesman (Royal & Derngate), Three Sisters (Southwark), Coalition (Spontaneity Shop), A Slight Ache (Pleasance), Courtroom Play (Treehouse), Gutted!: A Revenger’s Musical (Assembly Theatre) and an ongoing project performing Scaramouche Jones every ten years as he approaches the age of the titular character.

As a comedian, he was nominated Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for his show Thom Tuck Goes Straight-to-DVD, which subsequently transferred to the Soho Theatre, was adapted for BBC Radio and has now been released on DVD. His other solo shows are Thom Tuck Flips Out, The Square Root of Minus One & An August Institution. He is also the co-creator of The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society, Britain’s premier experimental comedy night.