30 Facts About Tim Crouch

Tim Crouch was born on 18 March 1964 and is a British experimental theatre maker, actor, writer and director.

Tim Crouch's plays include My Arm, An Oak Tree, ENGLAND, and The Author.

Tim Crouch's arm becomes the ultimate inanimate object onto which others project their own symbols and meanings.

Tim Crouch invites audience members to lend personal possessions, such as keys, jewelry, mobile phones, and photos, which are then cast as "actors", shown on a live video feed.

Precisely by not showing us what the bullies 'really' looked like, or having actors 'emote' their aggression, Tim Crouch allowed me to fill in my own responsive associations with the scene described.

Tim Crouch has described My Arm as "the mothership" of his later plays, which all reference it in some way.

The play was co-directed by Crouch's long-time collaborators, Karl James, and Andy Smith, the poet and performance artist known as "a smith", who Crouch originally asked to play the father.

Tim Crouch removed the stage, placing the audience on two banks of seats facing each other, where they watch each other watching the play.

Tim Crouch has succumbed to what sounds like a suffocating domesticity with his Norwegian wife and little daughter, constantly asking his friend to remove his shoes and not to smoke in the house.

Tim Crouch took over the role of Sam for the Los Angeles production.

In 2022, Tim Crouch wrote and performed a new one-person play about the Fool in King Lear.

Tim Crouch first performed the play in August 2022 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, as part of the fringe festival.

Alongside his adult theatre, Tim Crouch has written several plays for young audiences and plays to be performed by young actors.

For Brighton Festival, Tim Crouch has written three monologues: I, Caliban, I, Peaseblossom and I, Banquo, later performed together as the Fairy, Monster, Ghost trilogy.

In I, Caliban, Tim Crouch is the monster from The Tempest, left alone on the island after all the characters have departed, with one last bottle of wine, and still missing his mum.

In 2006, Tim Crouch was commissioned by the Playhouse to write a play to be performed by primary school children.

Lily Arnold's set is backed by a large swathe of crumpled paper on to which Will Monks' violent video imagery of riots flash up during startling moments accompanied by Owen Tim Crouch's soundscape, bursting from near-silence into pulsating, insistent beats.

In 2018, Tim Crouch wrote Beginners, a play performed by and for children and adults.

The play, directed by Tim Crouch, was first performed at London's Unicorn Theatre in March 2018.

The real thrill here is that Tim Crouch applies these exact same methods to his family show and pulls it off brilliantly.

In 2022, Tim Crouch's wrote Superglue for the National Theatre Connections youth theatre festival.

In 2024, Tim Crouch returned to an idea he initially sketched out for the company Visible Fictions in Scotland 20 years before: a play delivered to the audience through headphones combining binaural recording and live action.

Tim Crouch affords his characters the space to be genuinely intelligent, complex and tender.

Tim Crouch received an Offie nomination for best writer for Young Audiences and Helen Skiera received one for Best Sound Design for Young Audiences.

In 2019, Tim Crouch collaborated with Toby Jones, writing Don't Forget the Driver, a six-part comedy series for the BBC.

Tim Crouch's is a life of ordinary routine; clip on ties, limp packed lunches, vehicle checks, round-trip coach journeys ferrying church groups to donkey sanctuaries and Japanese tourists to Canterbury Cathedral.

Tim Crouch's dialogue is unhinged by the characters' inability to express themselves, which then gets explored through dance.

Tim Crouch's plays have been translated into many other languages, and there have been productions of them in Italy, France, Portugal, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Australia, the US and South Korea.

In 2016, Tim Crouch adapted and directed The Complete Deaths by Spymonkey, in which all 75 onstage deaths in Shakespeare's plays were performed.

One of the recurring features of Tim Crouch's work is the creation of uneasy moments for the audience.