Tobias Manderson-Galvin

Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin (born 19 August 1984) is an Australian actor, satirist, performance poet, dadaist and playwright.

He is best known as co founder and CEO/Artistic Director of Melbourne's new writing theatre: MKA: Theatre of New Writing.^[1]

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.^[2] 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

• Doppelgangster's TITANIC (2015–16), co-writer + performer, Doppelgangster, (Cardiff, Experimentica;^[3] Paris, ArtCOP21; Aberystwyth, Site2Safle2 Festival; Melbourne, Hot!Hot!Hot! Festival^[4])
• Baby (2016), Playwright + Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing + Doppelgangster, VAULT Festival ^[5]
• Lucky (2015), Playwright, MKA: Theatre of New Writing in association with Melbourne Theatre Company's NEON Festival^[6]
• Please Don't Talk About Me When Im Gone (2015), Playwright, MKA: Theatre of New Writing + Les Foules, VAULT Festival

(Winner, Outstanding New Production, Vault Awards)^{[7][8][9][10]}

• Thank You, Thank You Love (2014), Playwright, Director, Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing + HYPRTXT Festival^{[11][12][13][14]}
• Soma (2013), Playwright + Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing
• The Economist^[15] (2011), Playwright, MKA: Theatre of New Writing
• Dogmeat (2010)+(2014), Playwright + Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing ^{[16][17][18][19]}
• Afternoon of a Faun (2009), Playwright, CYT
• Genesis Re:Created (2009), Playwright + Performer, Sample Theatre
• The Inferno with Cast (2008), Playwright + Performer, Sample Theatre
• Junkies wiith Conor Gallacher & Ash Nish (2008), Playwright + Performer, National Young Writers Festival

References