Tommy is a BECTU IC Registry Level 2 Intimacy Coordinator and former Chair of the IC BECTU Branch committee. They came to intimacy coordination through their extensive work in developing safer spaces in the arts and their commitment to embodied practice. As well as having first-hand experience of the industry as a director, writer, performer and movement director, they also bring their wealth of experience in social justice and consent training, rooting their practice in anti-oppression and liberation.

As an Intimacy Coordinator and Director, Tommy has worked extensively across stage and screen, collaborating with leading filmmakers and creatives for all major streamers and broadcasters. Screen credits include Sweetpea (series 1 and 2), The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Slow Horses. Theatre credits include high-profile productions such as Brokeback Mountain in the West End, Broken Glass at The Young Vic, and As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Tommy's training as an Intimacy Coordinator was supported by Arts Council England, as one of the first awardees of the Developing Your Creative Practice grant to look specifically at intimacy in performance. Their practice approaches intimacy work through a radical, queer, sex-worker-informed lens.

As a Jewish queer nonbinary person, they are especially passionate about developing and supporting intimate queer content that expands the representation of queer relationships and marginalised identities. Their social justice and youth work have provided them with a deep foundation to work on a range of intimate content from complex power dynamics to early experiences of intimacy, as well as more conventional depictions of romance and sexual relationships.

They also write and speak about issues related to sex, sexuality and gender in various settings, most recently as a panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze.