Tom Stocks is a poet, producer, writer and actor that also goes by the name of The Chubby Northerner. Tom has been featured on BBC Radio Manchester multiple times, BBC Upload Festival, BBC I Player and BT Sport. His debut book is coming out called Lovely Chubbly. Tom is also the founder of Actor Awareness which fights for equality, diversity and working class talent in the arts. His plays On The Streets Of Covid won "The Royal Exchanges Local Tales Award" and Netflix and Chill was nominated for "A Standing Ovation Award" by London Pub Theatres. Tom was originally on the Young Creatives Board of Creative Youth and has now been promoted to festival Programme Manager at FUSE International and The Creative Talent Programme Manager with Creative Youth.