Tom Critchley
Tom Critchley has worked in theatre since 1980, variously as stage crew, stage manager, performer, director and producer at the Crucible Theatre, Churchill Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic and with Kneehigh Theatre, the Desperate Men and Public Parts.
Directing includes: Family Values and Dollsheart, also by Jeff Young. Tom gained a degree in drama at Bristol University in 1991 and an Arts Council of England trainee directorship in 1993, enabling him to train with Augusto Boal in Derry, Welfare State in Cumbria and Attakalari in Kerala India.
He joined Pete Townshend’s Eel Pie Publishing in 1998, developing Psychoderelict in New York and producing Lifehouse with the BBC, written by Jeff Young.
He established Industrial Language in 2000 to continue acting as a creative producer on other Townshend music theatre projects including Quadrophenia, which was initially developed with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff in February 2007.
