Tom McClane trained as an actor at Drama Centre London and has worked with Cheek by Jowl, Owen Horsely, Di Trevis and Joseph BLatchley. He trained as a director on the MFA at Birkbeck College and shadowed RADA and Drama Centre acting tutor John Besschizza  for over a year,  before starting his own teaching practice. Directing credits include Hedda Gabler, Ghosts and A Dolls House at Guildford School of Acting. Twelfth Night, Holy Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Three Sisters, Fuente Ovejuna and Here comes the Chopper at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He was the trainee director at Jermyn Street Theatre, where he  was the associate director on A Woman Before a Glass directed by Austin Pendleton. He was an associate on the Hound of the Baskerville at the English Theatre Frankfurt and the Deutsches Theatre Munich, directed by Lottie Wakeman.  He has assisted Bijan Sheibani, Alice Hamilton, and Tim Crouch. He has been a regular acting tutor at Drama Centre London, GSA and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. In 2018 he was invited to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to teach the Yat Malmgren/Laban system of Character Analysis..