Tom Morton-Smith

Tom Morton-Smith is an Olivier Award winning playwright and screenwriter.

Tom's adaptation for stage of MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO opened at the Barbican in 2022, winning five Whats On Stage awards and six Olivier awards, including for best play. An RSC production, it then transferred to the Gillian Lynne theatre in 2025.   

Tom's 2015 play, OPPENHEIMER, charting the life of J Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb, was written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, before transferring to the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. THE EARTHWORKS appeared at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in May and June 2017. It appeared as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Mischief Festival and was directed by the RSC's Deputy Artistic Director, Erica Whyman. It was revived in 2024 at the Young Vic.  

He is developing his play PSYCHODRAMA into a feature length screenplay for Drama Republic, and a thriller THE VALLEY OF HINNOM for Yann Zenou Entertainment.