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Tobias Manderson-Galvin

TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Tobias Manderson-Galvin is a contemporary Australian playwright, poet and performance maker, best known as co-Founder/Creative Director of MKA: Theatre of New Writing. Tobias has a reputation for shocking his audiences on and off stage. His stage work often draws on real or adapted stories of human misery, politics and sexuality in a style that is usually considered black-comedy. He's been called 'unstoppable' by the Age, 'exceptional' by AussieTheatre and 'toby' by his parents. Tobias won the St Martins National Young Playwrights Award 2009 for dogmeat. He was commissioned by the Traverse Theatre, Scotland to write a partial draft of the Body of an Unknown Man on Somerton Beach in 2012 and in 2013 won a RE Ross Trust Playwrights' Development Award for the further developed text, the Unknown man on Somerton Beach. Tobias was an Australian playwright delegate at World Interplay 2009, an Open House Resident Artist with Canberra Youth Theatre in 2009, and sat on the Platform Youth Theatre board, including as chair, for some years. Tobias has written plays, poems and performance pieces for radio, Theatre, live performance, spoken word, dadaist grime-core rap, stand up comedy and screen. His work has been performed internationally on stage, screen and radio. Tobias holds a Bachelor of Arts: Cultural Studies/Politics (Swinburne) and in 2012 completed a Master of Writing for Performance (University of Melbourne). He is currently working on a number of new stage works including a bio-play of King Charles II and is acting as dancer/dramaturg on Personal Mythologies (Next Wave 2014) and Psycho (Balletlab/Shian Law). He lives in Richmond, with his sister, the two of whom occasionally produce work under the bAnner of 'the Jolly Good Show'.

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below is a list of Tobias Manderson-Galvin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Baby         Dogmeat         Economist, The

Baby

Synopsis:
BABY is a 1985 American adventure fantasy film; what your lover calls you; your mother calls you. An inconoclastic, terrifying performance on the problem of human agency. Text-based, post-dramatic, political satire that is mostly as described; an audience with a polar bear; a victim of climate change, forced migration and globalisation. You are what you eat and the polar bear ate its young, your young and the last of the ice.

Notes:
Written, Directed and Performed by Tobias Manderson-Galvin (Australia) and Dr Tom Tom Payne Payne (Wales). Part of the Vault festival 2016

1st Produced:
The Vaults, Leake St, Waterloo, SE1 7NN     27 Jan 2016

Organisations:
MKA / Doppelgangster

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Music:
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piece 75 min

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Dogmeat

Synopsis:
dogmeat is based on a true story of a small boy spending his days chained to a lamp post outside his parents one room slum. and then the cameras come. dogmeat is the abandoned baby of verbatim and documentary theatre, commercial news broadcast and dogme95 films. the script consequently won the playwright the St Martins National Young Playwright Competition.

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Organisations:
MKa

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Play/Drama

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Economist, The

Synopsis:
the economist is about a horrific attack that happened in Norway but really, could happen anywhere. the media storm, a manifesto, the man, and the politics behind it.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Mka Pop-Up Theatre, Melbourne     29 Nov 2011

Organisations:
MKa Theatre of New Writing

1st Published:
Playlab   978-1921390432

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  Last cast of characters, lots of opportunity for doubling

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