Nationality Australian Name Tobias Manderson-Galvin | Role Actor Home town Melbourne | |
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Full Name Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin Born August 19, 1984 (age 39) ( 1984-08-19 ) Canberra, ACT, Australia Ethnicity Jewish/Irish/Australian Alma mater University of Melbourne & Swinburne University Occupation Performer, director, poet, satirist, playwright, dramaturg Awards St Martins National Playwriting Award 2009; Green Room Award For Contribution to Independent Theatre Melbourne (Co-Recipient) Parents Lenore Manderson, Pat Galvin | ||
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Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin (born 19 August 1984) is an Australian actor, satirist, performance poet, dadaist and playwright.
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He is best known as co founder and CEO/Artistic Director of Melbourne's new writing theatre: MKA: Theatre of New Writing.
Summary
Manderson-Galvin's distinctive theatre runs the gamut from docu-drama to black comedy, vaudeville to hyper-realism making him a notable Australian theatre maker. He's also distinguished by his increasingly large body of work. Manderson-Galvin writes and appears in much of his theatre also directing the majority of it. For inspiration, Manderson-Galvin draws heavily on his training as a ballet dancer, philosophy, sociology, his Jewish and Irish identities, amongst a wealth of other fields of interest. He's performed on stages diverse as Radio National, pool halls, the National Theatre, Melbourne and a kiddy pool full of jelly under a bridge in Northcote.
In 2010 he won the Munster Poetry Slam Champion and placed in the finals of the All-Ireland Poetry Slam.
His poetry, whilst usually live has been published in Herding Kites, a ten-year anthology of the National Young Writers' Festival, a festival at which he is a regular guest and performer.
Selected stage works
(Winner, Outstanding New Production, Vault Awards)