Tommy Crawford

Hi! I’m Tommy. I’m an artist practicing in many disciplines - acting, composing, songwriting. I live in Vermont with my family. I make music and theater and art and am raising my young daughter.

I am driven by curiosity of the world and people, exploration of character, investigation of the self, experimentation with poetry and form, and by the simple joys of making cool sounds and sharing my observations and creations with other people. I love history, traditional stories, myth, finding the layers in the soil we stand on.

Photo by Mark Washburn

House concert at Fitch Family Farm, July 2024
Photo by Corey Fitch

Live at Sawtooth December 2023 (photo by Yuliya Ballou)

Tommy Crawford & Friends at Feast and Field 2023

Check out this feature on Tommy’s work in the Valley News

As Feste in Twelfth Night at Two River Theater (2020). Photo by T Charles Erickson

As Mr. Peel with the cast of Tracy Letts’s The Minutes at Shaker Bridge Theater (2024) Photo by Caitlin Gomes.

Tommy as Paul McCartney in the sold-out, NYT Critics’ Pick new play Only Yesterday at 59e59 (2019)

Tommy live at Rockwood Music Hall (photo by Alex Grubbs)

Tommy and the cast of Twelfth Night sing “The Wind and the Rain” in Twelfth Night directed by Sara Holdren at Two River Theater, 2020 (Photo by T Charles Erickson)

As James Reynolds, Jr., in Bekah Brunstetter's Take Her to See the Maco Lights at The Invisible Dog (The Lark / SUPERWOLF, photo by Jamie Effros, 2012)

A shred behind the head as Carl Perkins in Million Dollar Quartet, Weston, VT (2018)

As Paul McCartney in Only Yesterday at Northern Stage (pictured with Christopher Sears, 2018)

As Percy in SeaWife at South Street Seaport (pictured with Eloise Eonnet, 2015, photo by Caitlin McNaney)

Tommy and the cast of SeaWife at Nantucket's White Heron Theater (2017) Photo by Cary Hazlegrove

As Carl Perkins with the cast of Million Dollar Quartet at the Weston Playhouse, Weston, VT (2018)

As Carl Perkins in Million Dollar Quartet, Weston, VT

As Eamon in Once at Northern Stage

As Mark in A.R. Gurney's Heresy at The Flea, directed by Jim Simpson (pictured with Reg E. Cathey, 2012)

As the Band Leader in Cry Eden (workshop production at Access Theater, 2016)

Guitarist/vocalist in The Kraze, the band in One Man, Two Guvnors at Florida Studio Theatre (pictured with James Zap, 2015)

As Alan in One Man, Two Guvnors (pictured with Christina King, 2015)

As Emcee and Speedo in Veil'd by Monet Hurst-Mendoza at WP Theater's Pipeline Festival (2016)

Portrait of Tommy as Percy in SeaWife (portrait by Travis Schlaht)

Million Dollar Quartet, Weston, VT

My latest composing project is the VERMONT FARM PROJECT, a Northern Stage commission premiering next year at Northern Stage in White River Junction, VT, in their 2024/25 season, inspired by over two years of interviews and conversations with people farming right now in Vermont.

As an actor I’ve played roles on stages around the country and developed close to a hundred new plays in readings and workshops with dozens of theaters.

I sing and play guitar, mandolin, piano, harmonica, and most things with keys or strings. As a solo singer-songwriter, I perform all around Vermont and elsewhere. I love sharing my music with new audiences. I’m known for skillful playing and singing, rich lyricism, and relaxed and engaging shows. I write about family, society, love, nature, angst, and more.

I lived and worked in New York City for 12 years, where I co-founded critically acclaimed folk-rock band The Lobbyists. With them, I co-created the “seagoing masterpiece” (Nathaniel Philbrick) SEAWIFE. Our music was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.

Some people are like, but wait, are you a musician? Or an actor? I’m both. It’s all intertwined.

Theater is divine; theater is profane. Silly, serious. Pointless, the point. Beautiful, ugly. Utterly hopeless; completely full of hope. It mocks the world, yet creates its own world.

In 2023, The Valley News wrote a profile on my work. Read here.

Check out my music and projects in the navigation tabs. You can stream my latest release, “Mountain Song,” on Spotify.

Reach out for bookings via the booking / contact tab. I don’t do a lot of social media. If you want to stay in the loop, shoot me a message and I’ll sign you up for my mailing list, old school way. I send out an email every month or two.

Thanks for spending time on my site.

This is my new music video. I made it with Mike Cannon with cut paper, watercolors, fingerpaint, and a little magic.

Tickets now available to Christopher Sears and Tommy Crawford Reunited at Sawtooth in Hanover, NH. Click here.