
Tom Arthur Davis is a theatre artist and producer.
In 2009, he co-founded Pandemic Theatre (then less distastefully named), for which he has acted as the Artistic Director for the past sixteen years. Pandemic Theatre is a socio-political collective that aims to challenge audiences, artists, and communities to engage and question the role of aesthetics in ideology. Since its inception, Pandemic has worked with 300+ artists, garnered 40+ international awards & nominations, and developed 80+ partnerships in 20+ cities worldwide.
Tom has also worked as the Director of Programming for PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and as a producer for Why Not Theatre, the Toronto Fringe Festival, and the Gathering Our Voices Indigenous Youth Leadership Conference.
As an artist, his work has been presented by the National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Cultch, PuSh Festival, and SummerWorks Performance Festival, among others.
Tom’s works for the stage include Mahmoud (co-writer – Playwrights Canada Press), Take d Milk, Nah? (co-creator/dramaturge – Playwrights Canada Press), The Only Good Indian (co-creator/co-writer – J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing), and SWIM (premiere at PuSh Festival 2025).