Tom Parry
Tom Parry is a screenwriter, director, comedian and podcaster.
His debut feature film script “Your Christmas Or Mine” was released world-wide in 2022 by Amazon Studio’s and was such a hit that the sequel “Your Christmas Or Mine 2” was released in December 2023. He has several other feature film scripts in development.
Tom’s TV writing credits include an episode of the ITV sitcom ‘The Job Lot’, an episode of the upcoming Channel 5 show The Benidorm Murders, two series of Sky’s Fantasy Football League, five series of the BAFTA-winning children’s show Class Dismissed and three series of Dave’s Hypothetical.
Tom is a prolific director of live comedy and theatre. He directed the recent festive smash hit ‘Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE Ball and Boe’ at the Soho Theatre and the theatrical hit Jimmy at the Edinburgh 2024 Fringe. He directed Ciaran Dowd’s Edinburgh award winning show Don Rodolfo, co-writing the subsequent BBC short film and directed the award nominated Max & Ivan show The Reunion. He has also directed Flo and Joan, The Birthday Girls, and countless other fringe favourites. Tom was an assistant director on the smash hit musical Operation Mincemeat, now running in London’s West End, and directed the national sell out theatre tour of This Week On The Internet: Live with WillNE and Stephen Tries. He also worked with internet sensation Aaron Crascall on his national tour show.
Tom rose to success as one-third of the award-winning ‘Pappys’, described by the Guardian as “one of the finest sketch troupes of the last decade”. They were nominated twice for the Edinburgh Comedy Award and performed all over the globe. After 6 critically acclaimed hour-long shows at the Edinburgh Festival, Pappy’s wrote and starred in two series of their own BBC sitcom and today are best known for their weekly podcast Pappy’s Flatshare, which has a cult-like following. Tom’s two solo stand up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe ‘Parryoke’ and ‘Yellow T-Shirt’ were sell out hits and he was nominated for the prestigious Best Newcomer Award. He later adapted Yellow T-Shirt into the acclaimed Radio 4 series ‘Fancy Dressed Life’.
Tom’s acting credits include Miranda (BBC), Phone Shop (C4), and Watson and Oliver (BBC) and he has appeared in The Stand Up Sketch Show, Drunk Histories and Cats Does Countdown.
