Tom Yaxley graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) in 2016 and a Masters of Business (Arts and Cultural Leadership) from Deakin University in 2024. In 2023, Tom was the alternate performer for Every Brilliant Thing with THAT Production Company & Metro Arts which won the 2023 Matilda Award for Best Independent Production and in 2024 performed the return season at Ipswich Civic Centre. In 2021, Tom made his mainstage debut in Boy Swallows Universe (Queensland Theatre / Brisbane Festival). His other theatre credits include Anatomy of a Suicide (Metro Arts & BC Productions); Chroma Town (Queensland Theatre), The Sublime (No Interval and Brisbane Powerhouse); Flood (Anywhere Theatre Festival) Hoods, April Fools : Redux, Romeo and Juliet Must Die, Hamlet / Macbeth and The Complete Deaths, The Lunatics, the Lover and the Loon, Our Place (Grin and Tonic); The Government Inspector, Waiting for Godot, and Angels in America (QUT). 

Film and web series credits include Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan and F*ck Everything. Voice over work includes two seasons of podcast Six Cold Feet by Brisbane author Josh Donnellan.

Tom continues to work as a teaching artist for the Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe, NIDA Open and Queensland Theatre and is currently the resident Theatre Director / Production Coordinator at John Paul College. Tom has done further training in improvisation with The Groundlings and voice work with Patsy Rodenburg through 16th Street Studios.

Headshot photographer credit: Sally Flegg