Tom Morton-Smith

Tom Morton-Smith is an Oliver awarding-winning playwright and screenwriter.

His adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s classic animation, My Neighbour Totoro, is currently playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London’s West End and booking through to January 2027. The production played for two sell-out seasons at the Barbican in 2022/23 and 2023/24. Presented by executive producer Joe Hisaishi, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Improbable and Nippon TV, and with puppets built by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The show broke box office records, becoming the fastest selling show in the Barbican’s history, and opened to critical acclaim.

His 2017 play, The Earthworks, was remounted at the Young Vic Theatre in March 2024. His 2015 play, Oppenheimer, charts the life of J Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb. Written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Oppenheimer opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, before transferring to the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. Ravens, a Cold War thriller set during the 1972 World Chess Championship, opened at the Hampstead Theatre in November 2019. His debut play, Salt Meets Wound, opened at Theatre503 in May 2007. Everyday Maps for Everyday Use was staged at the Finborough Theatre as part of the PapaTango New Writing Festival 2012. In Doggerland toured nationally in 2013.

Radio includes: The Wind in the Willows: a Weasel’s Tale for BBC Radio 4.

In 2025 he found Rum & Raspberry with dramaturg Pippa Hill and producer Kevin Fitzmaurice. Rum & Raspberry is a theatre company that puts the playwright at the heart of the artistic process.