Tom Machell

Actor / Writer / Performer

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Acting

Tom Machell is an Actor & award winning Writer/Performer

As an Actor, Tom has recently appeared in Vera (ITV), Emmerdale (ITV), Hullraisers(CH4) as well as being a series sketch regular on The Emily Atack Show (ITV) and Every Blank Ever (Comedy Central).

Tom made his Off-Broadway debut with Carol Tambor Award Winning play Life According to Saki. Other theatre credits include Offie-nominated Outlying Islands (Kings Head Theatre), Hand To God (English Theatre Frankfurt) and three runs of Guinness World Record Holding show News Revue.

As writer Tom was selected to be part of  BAFTA CONNECT, he won the UK Film Festival, Los Angeles Motion Picture Film Festival & Changing Faces International Film Festival (Best Short Script) for A Spoonful. Tom wrote and starred in first comedy short for Channel 4 in partnership with Northern Film + Media & North East Comedy Hot House entitled ‘Junior Doctors Padz’. Alongside his individual work Tom has been working with his award-winning comedy troupe zazU, who have had four sell our runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre respectively. 

Ticker, Tom’s debut play, was printed by Play Dead Press and completed a run at the Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe in 2019 to critical acclaim.

Praise for Ticker :

★★★★★ A Younger Theatre 

Machell’s creation does not miss a beat from one moment to the next; he has all the gifts of a fireside storyteller, tempered with the poise and control of a great tragedian.

★★★★★ - Uk Theatre Web

Tom Machell plays his joy, rage and grief brilliantly, effortlessly switching from character to character.

★★★★ - The Wee Review

Ticker is performed with an artistic precision that dances between rage, hilarity and reflection, in what is a brilliantly powerful piece.

Television

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

The Emily Atack Show

Sketch Actor (series regular)

Tommy Forbes/Jeanette Goulbourn

Monkey Kingdom Productions

Vera

Alexander Hawthorne

Claire Winyard

ITV

Emmerdale

Harry

Brett Fallis

ITV

Hullraisers

Ben

Ian FitzGibbon

Channel 4/Fable Pictures

THE B@IT

Mark Trend

Dan Clarke/Guy Davidson

Mother's Best Child

Sparks

Connor

Jen Gallagher

Channel 4/Northern Film and Media

Junior Doctor’s Padz

Jake Smith

Emma Roxburgh

Channel 4/Northern Film & Media

Jerk

Tom

Tom Mckay

BBC3 / Roughcut TV

News Crack

Gavin & Voice of Jon Snow

Guy Davidson & Dan Clarke

Channel 4

Doctors

Harry Bradley

Piotr Szkopiak

BBC

Every Blank Ever

Sketch Actor (Series Regular)

Guy Davidson & Dan Clarke

Comedy Central

Still Standing (Pilot)

Sam

Laura McHanon

Eric Deacon

Babs

The Husband

Dominic Leclerc

BBC

Lodger

Stanley

Simon Gibney

BBC/Tiger Aspect

Dom n Don

Dom

James Webber

zazU Comedy / Springhead Film Company

Forgotten Voices

Captain Reginald Haine

Phoebe Schlofield

BBC Television

Air Aces

Laddie Lucas

Nigel Levy

History Canada / USA Military Channel

Night Lives

Nick Night

Kahli Gaskin

Foxtel Comedy Australia

Heroes of the Skies

Laddie Lucas

Nigel Levy

Channel 5

Grouchy Young Men

Ben

Ninushka Oller - Stracey

Comedy Central

Losing ground

Henry

John Desiderio

SF Productions

Byker grove

David

Various Directors

BBC Television

Film

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

Your Hand Found Mine (Short)

Tom

Elham Ehsas

BAFTA/ BFI Network

The Keeper

Private Fletcher

Marcus H. Rosenmüller

Lieblingsfilm/ Zephyr Film Compan

The Bucket (short)

Frank

Francesca Pollak

AP-Pictures

Great Dane (short)

Clive

James Webber

The Springhead Film Company

The Dinosaur Hunter

Henry De La Beche

Sharon Sheehan

Mermade Films

Sticky

Paul

Richard Turley

Creative England/Vitamin Films

Listen up Emily

Geoff Bannister

Milo Cremer Eindhoven

BFI

Litterbugg

Dustin Bugg

Amber Weedon

Arts Productions / BFI

Die Agentin

Tom Moretz

Francesca Pollak

Baumbauer Productions

Together in my name

Adrian

Tom Floyd

Yellow Ladder Productions

Great Expectations

Finch

Mike Newell

No 9 Films / BBC

Burke and Hare

David

John Landis

Ealing Studios

Read Carefully

Joe

Reiki Tsuno

American Horror Channel

Swinging with the Finkels

Green Grocer's Son

Jonathan Newman

Kintop Pictures

Flicker (Short)

Jim

Sebastian Zavala

Met Film School

Ghosted (Short)

Connor

Jen Gallagher

FNA Digital

The River (Short)

Sgt. Bloom

Georgia Bloo Nicolaou

True Glory (Short)

Lcpl. George Middleton

Brad James/Scott James

Lyceum Entertainment

The Carving (Short)

Son

Ana Catarino

Gauged Productions

Eventual (Short)

Toby

Nicholas Connor

Bafta Connect

Stage

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

Ticker

Spencer

Derek Anderson

Theatre/ Turbine Theatre, Fight in The Dog, Underbelly, Alphabetti

Outlying Islands

Robert

Jessica Lazar

Atticist / Kings Head Theatre

Hand to God

Timothy

Derek Anderson

English Theatre Frankfurt

zazU part I, Part II, Part III

Performer/Writer

Katharine Armitage

Soho Theatre

Life According to Saki

Huddle

Jessica Lazar

New York Theatre Workshop

Benighted

Philip Waverton

Stephen Whitson

Damien Tracey Productions/Old Red Lion

zazU: Raisins To Stay Alive

Various Characters

Katharine Armitage

Gilded Balloon

zazU: A Fete Worse Than Death

Various Characters

Katharine Armitage

Soho Theatre/ Pleasance Courtyard

The Duke in the Cupboard

Bill Chester

Katy Weir

The Customs House

The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith

Ridley Smith

Miran Hadzic

The Old Red Lion

Zazu Comedy

Performer/ Writer

Katharine Armitage

St James Theatre

To Boldly Go

Geordie

John Brittain

New Diorama

News Revue Christmas Run

Performer/ Writer

Katharine Armitage

Canal Cafe Theatre

Zazu Comedy

Performer / Writer

Katharine Armitage

Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe

Titus Andronicus

Saturninus

Benjamin Blythe

The Malachites

The Indescribable Phenomenon

Earl

Sophia Stocco

New Wimbledon Theatre

Fallujah

Pale

Prav MJ

Cockpit Theatre

Zazu Comedy

Performer / Writer

Katharine Armitage

Leicester Square Theatre

Step

Adam

Rikki Beadle - Blair

Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Comedy of Errors

Antipholous. E

Kathy Curtiss

Drilling Company, New York

Christmas is Miles Away

Christie

Tom O'Brien

TREMers Theatre

Two Eclairs

Mark

Glynis Rigsby

The Players Club

Figs in Wigs

Colin Fig

Figs in Wigs

Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Radio

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

Tightrope Walkers by David Almond

Narrator

Isis Audio

Our Friends In The North

Mike

Melanie Harris

BBC Radio 4

Badger and the Blitz

Barracks Officer

Richard Turley

BFI/ Roxo

Tom and Lauren are going OOT

Tom

BBC Radio 4/ Candle & Bell

Comedy

Tom Machell is an Actor & award winning Writer/Performer

As an Actor, Tom has recently appeared in Vera (ITV), Emmerdale (ITV), Hullraisers(CH4) as well as being a series sketch regular on The Emily Atack Show (ITV) and Every Blank Ever (Comedy Central).

Tom made his Off-Broadway debut with Carol Tambor Award Winning play Life According to Saki. Other theatre credits include Offie-nominated Outlying Islands (Kings Head Theatre), Hand To God (English Theatre Frankfurt) and three runs of Guinness World Record Holding show News Revue.

As writer Tom was selected to be part of  BAFTA CONNECT, he won the UK Film Festival, Los Angeles Motion Picture Film Festival & Changing Faces International Film Festival (Best Short Script) for A Spoonful. Tom wrote and starred in first comedy short for Channel 4 in partnership with Northern Film + Media & North East Comedy Hot House entitled ‘Junior Doctors Padz’. Alongside his individual work Tom has been working with his award-winning comedy troupe zazU, who have had four sell our runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre respectively. 

Ticker, Tom’s debut play, was printed by Play Dead Press and completed a run at the Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe in 2019 to critical acclaim.

Praise for Ticker :

★★★★★ A Younger Theatre 

Machell’s creation does not miss a beat from one moment to the next; he has all the gifts of a fireside storyteller, tempered with the poise and control of a great tragedian.

★★★★★ - Uk Theatre Web

Tom Machell plays his joy, rage and grief brilliantly, effortlessly switching from character to character.

★★★★ - The Wee Review

Ticker is performed with an artistic precision that dances between rage, hilarity and reflection, in what is a brilliantly powerful piece.

Film, TV & Theatre

Film

ProductionCompanyNotes

Cake

Bafta Microshorts/ Dogmother Films

Writer

The Bucket (Short)

AP Pictures

Writer

In Development

ProductionCompanyNotes

Toast F**K (Play)

2024

Writer/Performer - *longlisted Painkiller Prize

Dear Dad(s)

2024

Dogmother Films

Writer/Performer

Nightingales

Candle and Bell

Co - Writer with Maddie Rice

Matter of Frat

Condé Nast Entertainment

Co - Writer with Maddie Rice

Elliot’s Guide To Everything (Television)

BFI

Co-writing with Nick Read

A Spoonful (Short Film)

Katie Sinclair

Writer | Winner of Best Screenplay (Short Film) at the Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival 2020

Radio

ProductionCompanyNotes

Tom and Lauren are going OOT

BBC Radio 4 / Candle and Bell

Writer / Performer

Television

ProductionCompanyNotes

Friendless Writers Room

Tiger Aspect/BBC Comedy

Writer

Behind Junior Doctor's Doors

Channel 4/Northern Media and Film

Writer | Performer

Losing Ground

SF Productions

Writer

zazU (Online Shorts)

zazU Comedy

Co-Writer

Theatre

ProductionCompanyNotes

Second The Best (R&D)

The Six Twenty/ Live Theatre

Writer

Ticker

Fight In The Dog/Underbelly

Writer/Performer

zazU

zazU Comedy

Writer | Performer

zazUtinany

Underbelly/ zazU Comedy

Writer | Performer

zazU: Raisins To Stay Alive

Soho Theatre/ zazU Comedy

Writer | Performer

zazU: A Fete Worse Than Death

Soho Theatre/ zazU Comedy

Writer | Performer

zazU: The Beginning

Soho Theatre / zazU Comedy

Writer | Performer

Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You

Edinburgh Fringe

Writer

Tom’s debut play Ticker was published by PlayDead Press and ran at The Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe before transferring to Alphabetti Theatre & Northern Stage to rave reviews. Tom has just written and starred in first comedy short for Channel 4 in partnership with Northern Film + Media & North East Comedy Hot House entitled ‘Junior Doctors Padz’. He is currently developing television comedy show ‘Elliot’s Guide To Everything’ with the BFI, alongside a sitcom co-written with stand up Lauren Pattison. He recently won both The Los Angeles Motion Picture Film Festival and Changing Face International Film Festival ‘Best short script’ category for his film ‘A Spoonful’ which films in 2021 starring Kim Tserkezie. Alongside his individual work Tom has been working with his award-winning comedy troupe zazU, who have had four sell our runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre respectively. 

Praise for Ticker

★★★★★ A Younger Theatre - Machell’s creation does not miss a beat from one moment to the next; he has all the gifts of a fireside storyteller, tempered with the poise and control of a great tragedian. 

★★★★ Three Weeks - Ticker is excellently presented with simple but effective staging, and offers a truly arresting exploration of grief, mental health and toxic masculinity, balanced by dark humour and punctuated by unexpected twists that keep you guessing. 

★★★★★ Uk Theatre Web - Tom Machell plays his joy,rage and grief brilliantly, effortlessly switching from character to character.  

★★★★  The Wee Review - Ticker is performed with an artistic precision that dances between rage, hilarity and reflection, in what is a brilliantly powerful piece.

Exeunt Magazine - Ticker is a smartly written and charismatically performed look at grief, love and toxic masculinity packed with sharp lines and black humour.