Deborah Frances-White and Tom Salinsky formed the Spontaneity Shop in 1997 to develop new forms of comedy improvisation in London. Since then Tom has performed and taught all over the world and recently made a television pilot for ITV.

Tom studied improvisation with Patti Stiles and Keith Johnstone. While still a student, he was writing for BBC Radio 4's "Week Ending" and he was later the editor of the satirical website The Brains Trust. He has written a great deal of corporate comedy for The Spontaneity Shop, including sketches, speeches, song lyrics and monologues.

With The Spontaneity Shop, Tom has performed at the Hackney Empire, the RSC Summer House, the PIT New York, The Atheneum Chicago. He could recently been seen on television in Channel 4's "Space Cadets" and he is currently working with bonzai.tv on a number of Internet comedy projects.

He has taught improvisation at RADA, the Actors Centre at the National Youth Theatre as well as internationally. He is currently directing the Spontaneity Shop workshop programme which was the origin of all our current training work.

Tom developed The Spontaneity Shop's Cake Factor programme and is developing the pitch coaching side of the business currently. His clients include Harrods, Betfair, Catalysis, and Deloitte.

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