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Hi! I’m Tommy. I’m an artist practicing in many disciplines - acting, composing, songwriting. I live in Vermont with my family. I make music and theater and art and am raising my young daughter and son.

I am driven by curiosity of the world and people, exploration of character, investigation of the self, experimentation with poetry and form, and by the simple joys of making cool sounds and sharing my observations and creations with other people. I love history, traditional stories, myth, finding the layers in the soil we stand on.

Tommy as Jack in Dear Jack, Dear Louise (at Shaker Bridge Theater, 2025)

House concert at Fitch Family Farm, July 2024
Photo by Corey Fitch

Tommy Crawford & Friends at Feast and Field 2023

Photo by Mark Washburn

Tommy as Paul McCartney in the sold-out, NYT Critics’ Pick new play Only Yesterday at 59e59 (2019)

As Feste in Twelfth Night at Two River Theater (2020). Photo by T Charles Erickson

Photo by Mark Washburn

As Mr. Peel with the cast of Tracy Letts’s The Minutes at Shaker Bridge Theater (2024) Photo by Caitlin Gomes.

Check out this feature on Tommy’s work in the Valley News

Tommy live at Rockwood Music Hall (photo by Alex Grubbs)

Tommy and the cast of Twelfth Night sing “The Wind and the Rain” in Twelfth Night directed by Sara Holdren at Two River Theater, 2020 (Photo by T Charles Erickson)

As James Reynolds, Jr., in Bekah Brunstetter's Take Her to See the Maco Lights at The Invisible Dog (The Lark / SUPERWOLF, photo by Jamie Effros, 2012)

A shred behind the head as Carl Perkins in Million Dollar Quartet, Weston, VT (2018)

As Paul McCartney in Only Yesterday at Northern Stage (pictured with Christopher Sears, 2018)

As Percy in SeaWife at South Street Seaport (pictured with Eloise Eonnet, 2015, photo by Caitlin McNaney)

Tommy and the cast of SeaWife at Nantucket's White Heron Theater (2017) Photo by Cary Hazlegrove

As Carl Perkins with the cast of Million Dollar Quartet at the Weston Playhouse, Weston, VT (2018)

As Carl Perkins in Million Dollar Quartet, Weston, VT

As Eamon in Once at Northern Stage

As Mark in A.R. Gurney's Heresy at The Flea, directed by Jim Simpson (pictured with Reg E. Cathey, 2012)

As the Band Leader in Cry Eden (workshop production at Access Theater, 2016)

Guitarist/vocalist in The Kraze, the band in One Man, Two Guvnors at Florida Studio Theatre (pictured with James Zap, 2015)

As Alan in One Man, Two Guvnors (pictured with Christina King, 2015)

As Emcee and Speedo in Veil'd by Monet Hurst-Mendoza at WP Theater's Pipeline Festival (2016)

Portrait of Tommy as Percy in SeaWife (portrait by Travis Schlaht)

Million Dollar Quartet, Weston, VT

Most recently, my musical VERMONT FARM PROJECT, written with book writer Jess Kahkoska and developed/directed by Sarah Wansley, enjoyed a world premiere at Northern Stage in May 2025 at Northern Stage in White River Junction, VT. The show was inspired by three years of interviews and conversations with people working the land and with animals right now in Vermont and New Hampshire. The audience and critical response was incredible. You can read about it in American Theatre Magazine here.

As an actor I’ve played roles on stages around the country and developed close to a hundred new plays in readings and workshops with dozens of theaters.

I sing and play guitar, mandolin, piano, harmonica, and most things with keys or strings. As a solo singer-songwriter, I perform all around Vermont and elsewhere. I love sharing my music with new audiences. I’m known for skillful playing and singing, rich lyricism, and relaxed and engaging shows. I write about family, society, love, nature, angst, and more.

I lived and worked in New York City for 12 years, where I co-founded critically acclaimed folk-rock band The Lobbyists. With them, I co-created the “seagoing masterpiece” (Nathaniel Philbrick) SEAWIFE. Our music was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.

Some people are like, but wait, are you a musician? Or an actor? I’m both. It’s all intertwined.

Theater is divine; theater is profane. Silly, serious. Pointless, the point. Beautiful, ugly. Utterly hopeless; completely full of hope. It mocks the world, yet creates its own world.

In 2023, The Valley News wrote a profile on my work. Read here.

Check out my music and projects in the navigation tabs.

Reach out for bookings via the booking / contact tab. I don’t do a lot of social media. If you want to stay in the loop, shoot me a message and I’ll sign you up for my mailing list, old school way. I send out an email every month or two.

Thanks for spending time on my site.

This is my new music video. I made it with Mike Cannon with cut paper, watercolors, fingerpaint, and a little magic.

The Vermont Farm Project: A Farm to Stage Musical

Thank you to the amazing audience of Northern Stage for an incredible world premiere run of the Vermont Farm Project, May 7-25 in White River Junction, VT and for voting our show the Best New Play or Musical in Broadway World Regional Awards.

Follow me on Spotify and bandcamp for new releases. Here’s a sample of my music on Spotify