Tom Smith : Profile @ Arts Front

Tom Smith

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Performing Arts Producer @ Believable Arts Management

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Tom (he/him) is a Pōneke-based, Ōtepoti raised Arts Producer with a passion for using storytelling to bring new audiences to the creative space. He is a graduate of the 2023 Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Whare Ngangahau Master of Fine Arts programme where he specialised in theatre production management. He received the Dronke Prize for Drama for finishing top of his programme. Tom and another emerging Pōneke-based arts producer, Jimmy Williamson, started their label, Believable Arts Management, in 2023 to provide production management services to emerging artists and companies.

Since leaving university, Tom has written, and produced multiple award-winning works across theatre, dance, fashion, comedy, and music events He has coordinated multiple projects across Pōneke, wider Aotearoa, and internationally. Lately, Tom is the current Treasurer of the Ruff as Gutz Charitable Trust, a member of the Performing Arts and Young People Aotearoa Youth Advisory Sub-committee, and the latest Festival Administrator for Creative Capital Arts Trust.

Tom’s recent credits include Run Coyote Run (2025), BUCK SCOURGE: LIVING NIGHTMARE (2025), Omnia (2025), Windbag: Live! (2025), Over and Out (2025), The Devils are Coming (2025), Subversion (2025), Entry: Exhibit, Encounter, and After Hours (2025), We, The Outsiders (2024), Antarctic Endeavours (2024), Limbo (2024), Iphigenia at Aulis (2024).