Career
He trained with the National Youth Theatre performing with the company in London and Manchester in addition to working on outreach projects, films and also forming part of their Company Management Team. Comedian He has performed at Just Foreign Laughs in Montreal, London’s Soho Theatre, New York’s University of California, Berkeley Theatre and has had his own show at the Edinburgh Fringe for the past three years - "Tom Allen and Other Short Stories". "A Voyage Round My Mother" and "Women!" Film Radio He has co-written and recorded 2 series of The Correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
In 2009 he made guest appearances on Loose Ends, The Richard Bacon Show, Big Brother’s Big Mouth and Big Brother’s Little Brother.
He took the lead role of young Pip Bin in the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Four comedy Bleak Expectations, which has so far run to five series (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012) with Anthony Head and Richard Johnson. In 2008 he recorded a radio adaptation of The Wooden Overcoat with Julia Davis and David Tennant and written by Mark Gatiss.
In August 2015 he appeared on Just a Minute. Doctor Who audio His character, Oliver Harper, is a city trader from 1966.
He joined the First Doctor and Steven Taylor, in the audio play The Perpetual Bond, The Cold Equations and The First Wave.
Oliver was the first ongoing companion created for the Companion Chronicles range.
