Toby Frow

Director

Biography

After a fifteen-year career directing theatre in the UK and Internationally, Toby has been directing for TV and film for the last decade.  His credits have included sole director of four-part thriller The Game, a series finale for Silent Witness and multiple episodes of Midsomer Murders, Death in Paradise, Holby City and Hollyoaks.

His award-winning short film Maude, made in 2020 and starring Kathryn Pogson and Matthew Kelly, was screened at film festivals around the world. 

Credits

Television

Production Company Notes
THE GAME
2025
Clapperboard Studios/Channel 5

4 x 60′
Starring Jason Watkins, Robson Green and Sunetra Sarker

SILENT WITNESS XXVIII
2024
BBC

2 episodes

SILENT WITNESS XXVII
2023
BBC

Series Finale
2 episodes

SILENT WITNESS XXVI
2022
BBC

Series Finale
2 episodes

DEATH IN PARADISE XI
2022
Red Planet/BBC One

2 episodes

MIDSOMER MURDERS XXII
2021
Bentley Productions

Ep 5 ‘For Death Prepare’

DEATH IN PARADISE X
2021
Red Planet/BBC One

2 episodes

MIDSOMER MURDERS XXI
2019
Bentley Productions

Ep 3 ‘The Miniature Murders’

HOLLYOAKS
2019
Lime Pictures

Eps 5151-55

MIDSOMER MURDERS XX
2018
Bentley Productions

Ep 3 ‘Drawing Dead’

HOLBY CITY
2016 – 2018
BBC

8 episodes

EASTENDERS
2014
BBC

93 episodes, including Christmas Day and New Year episodes
Nominated for Best Single Episode (‘Lee on the Edge’) and Scene of the Year (‘Ronnie and Roxy’s Exit’), 2017 Soap Awards

Short Films

Production Company Notes
MAUDE
2019
FrowFred / Jessica Hodges

Retired housewife Maude feels trapped in her existence. Hope comes in a letter saying she has won a cruise; Maude imagines escaping with Henry, her local shopkeeper. As her daydreams become more bizarre her fantasy world becomes muddled with life.
Starring Kathryn Pogson, Ansu Kabia and Matthew Kelly
Selected for Middlebury New Filmmakers’ Festival, Bolton International Film Festival, This Is England Festival and Salute Your Shorts Film Festival.

Theatre

Production Company Notes
THE CARETAKER
2015
Gate Theatre, Dublin

By Harold Pinter

MY COUSIN RACHEL
2014
Spoleto Festival, Charleston/Gate Theatre, Dublin

Adapted by Joseph O’Connor

FIRST LOVE
2013
Royal Lyceum/EIF

By Samuel Beckett
Revival

THE LAST SUMMER
2012
Gate Theatre, Dublin

By Declan Hughes

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
2012
Shakespeare's Globe

By William Shakespeare

DA
2012
Gate Theatre, Dublin

By Hugh Leonard

HAPPY DAYS IN THE ART WORLD
2011
Tramway Glasgow/Skirball Centre, New York

By Elmgreen & Dragset
Played at Performa International Festival of New Visual Art Performance
With Joseph Fiennes and Charles Edwards

EDWARD II
2011
Manchester Royal Exchange

By Christopher Marlowe

DR FAUSTUS
2010
Manchester Royal Exchange

By Christopher Marlowe

PLAYHOUSE LIVE: CROCODILE
2010
Sky Arts

By Frank McGuinness

LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES
2010
Salisbury Playhouse

By Christopher Hampton

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
2009
Theatre Royal Bath/No 1 Tour

Adapted by Simon Reade

SPEAKING IN TONGUES
2009
Duke of York's Theatre

By Andrew Bovell

THE REAL THING
2008
Salisbury Playhouse

By Tom Stoppard

SOME KIND OF BLISS
2008
Trafalgar Studios/Brits Off Broadway

By Samuel Adamson
Time Out Critics’ Choice Award

20 CIGARETTES
2007
Soho Theatre/NYT

By Marcy Kahan

SHIP OF FOOLS
2007
Theatre503

By Andrew Bovell
Time Out Critics’ Choice Award

BOX
2007
Birmingham Rep

By Sarah Woods
Site-specific production

BEAUTIFUL THING
2006
Sound Theatre

By Jonathan Harvey

THE PILLOWMAN
2005
National Theatre Tour

By Martin McDonagh
Best Touring Production, Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards

SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME
2004
Northampton Theatre Royal

By Frank McGuinness

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
2003
Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse

By Arthur Miller
Nominated for TMA Award

PEER GYNT
2000
Battersea Arts Centre

By Henrik Ibsen
JMK Festival

OF MICE AND MEN
2000
Southwark Playhouse

By John Steinbeck

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