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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 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 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: The Vermont Farm Project: A Farm-to-Stage-Musical (Northern Stage commission); SeaWife (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).
Tommy plays original music around Vermont and beyond. Recent solo albums include Athena and the Moon (2022).
Tommy grew up in New Jersey and lived in New York for twelve years. He co-founded folk band and theater collective The Lobbyists, is a lifetime member artist of Ensemble Studio Theater, and is a graduate of Yale University with distinction in Theater Studies. Tommy lives with his wife, two young children, and many instruments in eastern Vermont.