Tom Joseph

Tom Joseph is a writer, director and performance artist, best known as the host and comedic vision behind BUTTMITZVAH – a queer Jewish cabaret night that regularly sells out to thousands of revellers at venues in London and New York – and is currently doing a residency at Soho Theatre with monthly comedy night CHICKEN SOUP DATES. He directed award-winning Arts Council funded short PERSONAL SHOPPING, an improvised comedy featuring The Rimmers, in collaboration with Alex Eisenberg and Candy Gigi. As a screenwriter, he’s written for Netflix, Channel 4, Comedy Central, NBC Universal, BBC Studios, Baby Cow, Tiger Aspect, Raw, Lookout Point and STV. He co-created Big Talk action-comedy IN DEEP for BBC starring Ashley Walters, co-wrote US feature THE STEREOTYPES for Sacha Baron Cohen to star in and produce and was a writer on Rose D’or nominated Miracle Meat for Channel 4, which the Guardian called “one of the best hoaxes in TV history”. He’s currently co-writing SCHTUM, an original crime-drama series set in London’s Hasidic community for Monumental/Sky.