TOMMY CRAWFORD is an actor, multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, songwriter, and Drama Desk Award-nominated composer.

As an actor and composer-lyricist, he has developed close to 100 new plays in New York and regionally with companies that include Berkeley Rep, Northern Stage, Ensemble Studio Theater, Ars Nova, The Flea, WP Theater, NAMT, Chautauqua, Weston, UCSD/La Jolla, New York Stage and Film, Little Island NYC, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, The Invisible Dog, Oakland Theater Project, and more.

His composing work often explores intersections of band performance and theatrical storytelling with actor-musicians.

As an actor, recent roles include Jack in Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Shaker Bridge); Peel in The Minutes (Shaker Bridge); Perks in The Railway Children (Northern Stage); Maks in Ironbound (Shaker Bridge); Feste in Twelfth Night (Two River Theater); Paul McCartney in Only Yesterday (NYT Critics’ Pick: 59e59, Northern Stage); Carl Perkins in Million Dollar Quartet (Weston); Speedo in Veil’d (WP Theater); Alan in One Man, Two Guvnors (Florida Studio Theatre); Percy in SeaWife (White Heron; Naked Angels, South Street Seaport). Tommy has also been featured in several independent feature films and short student films.

Recent composing projects include The Vermont Farm Project: A Farm-to-Stage-Musical (World premiere at Northern Stage; winner Best New Play/Musical Broadway World Regional Awards); SeaWife (World premiere with Naked Angels; Drama Desk Award Nomination, Outstanding Music in a Musical, with The Lobbyists); Miss Mitchell (EST/Sloan Commission; Little Island NYC Storytelling Festival); The Golden Spike (Joe’s Pub; Rhinebeck; BRIC Arts); Twelfth Night (Two River Theater); Cymbeline (NYU Grad Acting); Nia (UNC/Chapel Hill); Cry Eden (Access Theater).

A highly skilled musician and songwriter, Tommy plays original music as a solo artist and with other musicians around Vermont and beyond. Solo albums include Athena and the Moon (2022).

Tommy grew up attending public schools in New Jersey and lived and worked out of New York City for twelve years. He graduated from Yale University with distinction in Theater Studies with an acting concentration and received the Metcalfe Prize. He co-founded folk band and theater collective The Lobbyists and is a lifetime member artist of Ensemble Studio Theater. Tommy is currently based out of eastern Vermont, where he is raising his two young children with his wife, director and artistic leader Sarah Wansley.