Thomas Coppell started out in television at Wellington company ProductionShed.TV, while studying for his Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies at Victoria University. After assisting on several of the company's productions, he moved up to writing, production managing and later producing on te reo kids' series Huhu. Coppell is now at the helm of his own production company: Tomorrow, Rain. In 2016 he produced Matasila Freshwater's animated short Shmeat. Since then Coppell has worked with creative collective The Candle Wasters on Happy Playland, and webseries/ webcomic hybrid Tragicomic.