Tom Powell won a 2021 Papatango Prize for his play The Silence & the Noise, which toured the UK in partnership with English Touring Theatre in 2021/22. He adapted the play for film in 2022, produced by Pentabus and Rural Media, and it will be released in 2023. His play Surfacing opened at the Vault Festival on February 14th 2023, is published by Methuen, and is an Evening Standard Pick of the Festival, and a JAM Top 5 Show at Vaults.

Tom was the 2020 -21 CRF Writer in Residence at Pentabus Theatre and was chosen for the BBC Studios Writers’ Academy 2019/20.  He’s written for Holby City and EastEnders.

His other writing includes I Dare You (Nottingham Playhouse/Curve - shortlisted for the Soho Young Writers’ Award) and Little Echoes (Hope Theatre - published by Methuen/Bloomsbury). He previously won the OTR National Radio Drama Award and the Harry Porter Prize.

He was selected for the BBC Words First spoken word programme, is an Arts Council England/BBC New Creative and his short audio drama Love Beyond the Zoo was broadcast on BBC Radio 4Xtra and is available on BBC Sounds.