BACKGROUND
Tom has toured NZ and Australia extensively including the NZ tour of GREASE, Saturday Night Fever, SEED, Hinepau and Live Live Cinemas international tour of Little Shop of Horrors. Tom has written his own multi award winning rock opera, ALLERGIC TO LOVE: curse of the 80�s, which has toured to America, Mexico and throughout NZ. Tom travelled to London to intern on several West End musicals including We will Rock You and had his London debut in Covent Garden with a 40 piece orchestra. He has also appeared on TV in The Brokenwood Mysteries, The Maori Sidesteps, Countdown and American Express commercials and most recently starred in the Export beer ad which featured the award winning song Im drinking it for you. Tom is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: the NZ Drama school.
Other credits include SECOND UNIT- What Will You Do in The Shadows, Cringe Worthy!, Public Service Announcements, in which Tom has impersonated Simon Bridges for the past 4 years, ATC�s Guys and Dolls, Stag Weekend and many more.
2020
HARI WITH THE MAORI SIDESTEPS
Performer
The Maori Sidesteps Collective LTD
James McCaskill
2017
PRESS AND PUBLIC PREVIEW
MC
San Diego International Fringe Festival
2020
MODERN MAORI QUARTET 'GARAGE PARTY'
Performer
The Wintergarden
Various
2019
SECOND UNIT - What Will You Do In The Shadows
Ensemble
Tawhiri
Stella Reid / Benjamin Henson / Andrew Foster
2018
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Simon Bridges
Bats Theatre
Isobel McKinnon
2017
DESTIVATION BEEHIVE 2017
Various
Circa Theatre
Lorde Parry & Pinky Agnew
2017
ALLERGIC TO LOVE: CURSE OF THE 80s
Tom
NZ, US, Mexico and Fiji Tour
Tom Knowles
2016
GREASE
Jonny Casino & Teen Angel
Ben MacDonald Productions
Lynne-Jane Rutherford
2015
GUYS AND DOLLS
Brandy Bottle Bates/Ensemble
Auckland Theatre Company
Raymond Hawthorne
2014
MR MCGEE AND THE BITING FLEA
Old Tom & Milton
Capitol E - NZ Tour
Dave Brown
2013
EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON
Daniel, Businessman, Youngman
Toi Whakaari
2012
THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
Judge Frank Littlefield
Toi Whakaari
2020
THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN ON PHIL
Phil
New Zealand Festival of the Arts & The Royal National Theatre (UK)
Lyndsey Turner
2019
WE WILL ROCK YOU
Brit
Clarence St Theatre Trust
David Sidwell
2013
FOOTLOOSE
Singer
Lower Hutt Musical Theatre
2008
GREASE
Danny Zuko/Vince Fontaine
MCT
2006
RATS
Rat Pack Leader
Marlbrough Technology Centre
2006
BATS
Cecil
Blenhiem Musical Theatre Rooms
2006
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ME ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Protean
Blenhiem Musical Theatre Rooms
2006
JOHNNY THE MUSICAL
Al
Marlbrough Technology Centre
2017
MAORI SIDE STEPS - Season 2
Pakeha Quicksteps
Maori TV
Jamie McCaskill
2020
24 HOUR MONOLOGUE CHALLENGE
Actor
Centrepoint Theatre
2010
ALADDIN (Dance Production)
The Prince Naveen
MCT