Thom Tuck

Thom Tuck is an actor, writer and comedian. 

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.

Thom is one third of the acclaimed sketch troupe The Penny Dreadfuls who have made two series for Radio 4 and seven audio dramas including adaptations of the Odyssey and Don Quixote. Other radio work includes Faust, Singlets & Doublets, Vanity Fair and being the regular host of Sketchorama (all BBC Radio 4).

He teaches regularly for Comedy Club 4 Kids and has directed dozens of shows for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe including Deborah Frances-White, Funmbi Omotayo, Fern Brady, Meryl O’Rourke, Terry Saunders, Catriona Knox and Ian Smith.