Tobias Deacon

Preferred Pronouns: He/Him

Interested in: Verse Drama (especially Shakespeare); Immersive productions; Ensemble Work; Directing; Assistant Directing; Acting; Audio Directing (Radio and Web); Script Development.

I am an artistic director of Scaffold Shakespeare Company and POH Productions, working internationally as an actor, director, university lecturer and workshop facilitator.

During the winter lockdown of 2020, I directed an audio production of Peter Pan starring Kenneth Branagh, Olivia Colman, Sharon D Clarke and Bertie Carvel to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital. The production was rehearsed, recorded, mixed and fully-scored remotely and is available online at: listentopeterpan.com.

I have worked extensively as an actor in classical theatre in London, round the UK on tour and internationally in France, Greece and Cyprus. Since founding Scaffold Shakespeare Company in 2011, I have developed his skills as a director, specialising in Shakespeare but also in immersive performance (SPECIFIQ; Hammer House of Horrors: The Soulless Ones). Scaffold’s “Play out the Play” workshop series (covering the complete plays of Shakespeare) was awarded an Owl Schreame Award for Innovation in Classical Theatre, and I have since led regular workshops for a range of institutions including the National Theatre of Northern Greece.

I trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Acting. During his time there, I was awarded the Peter Coxhead scholarship and represented Mountview at The Sam Wanamaker Festival at The Globe.

For more information or to get in touch, please visit:https://www.tobiasdeacon.com/

I live in Isleworth (West London) with my wife Annabelle and our daughter Bobby.

Credits

Director, Peter Pan, Online, 2020

Director, The Tempest, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 1 week, 2021

Associate Director, Hammer House of Horror: The Soulless Ones, Hoxton Hall (Immersive), 5 weeks, 2018

Director, Hamlet, Online, 2020

Director/Script Editor, All the World's A Stage, Harrow Speech Room, 1 week 2023

Director, Pass it On - A Son et Lumière, Open-air, 1 week, 2022

Associate Director, Giants of Old, Harrow School (site-specific), 1 week, 2014

Director, Canterbury Tales, Waterside Theatre (University of Northampton), 1 week, 2023

Director, The Tempest, Open-air Waterside Theatre (University of Northampton and Apethorpe Palace, 2 weeks, 2023

Director, The Wind in the Willows, Waterside Theatre (University of Northampton), 1 week, 2022

Director, Skellig, Waterside Theatre (University of Northampton), 1 week, 2021

Director, Loveplay, Royal and Derngate, 1 week, 2021

Director, Arcadia, Jackson's Lane, 1 week, 2019

Director, Romeo and Juliet, St. Peter's Church (Site-Specific), 1 week, 2018

Director, Titus Andronicus, Delapré Abbey (Site-Specific), 1 week, 2017


Acting credits include: Love Letters (An Audio/Visual production for Theatre Lab Company), Fire! (The Classical Roadshow), Hammer House of Horror Live: The Soulless Ones (Hammer House of Horror), Speak Low if You Speak Love (Scaffold Shakespeare and Hampton Court), Encounters with the Past (Jo McInnes, Hampton Court); Agincourt 600 (Richard Mallett Arts Management, St George the Martyr); Salome (Hoxton Hall, Greece, France and London site-specific), Medea, The Oresteia, (both Riverside Studios), Antigone (Riverside Studios and 2011 International Festival Of Greek Drama, Cyprus), all for Theatre Lab Company; Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Young Shakespeare Company); Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew (Principal Theatre Company); Giants of Old, Whisky Dusk, Mystery at the Museum (SPECIFIQ); Empty Vessels (Rosemary Branch); The Dictator’s Face (Off Cuts Festival); Hamlet (Icarus Theatre Collective); Twelfth Night (Selladoor).

For a full acting CV please visit SPOTLIGHT.

Training

BA (Hons) Acting