Tobias Manderson-Galvin
Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin is an Australian actor, satirist, performance poet, and playwright.
He is best known as co founder and CEO/Artistic Director of Melbourne's new writing theatre:.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
- Doppelgangster's TITANIC, co-writer + performer, Doppelgangster,
- Baby, Playwright + Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing + Doppelgangster, VAULT Festival
- Lucky, Playwright, MKA: Theatre of New Writing in association with Melbourne Theatre Company's NEON Festival
- Please Don't Talk About Me When Im Gone, Playwright, MKA: Theatre of New Writing + Les Foules, VAULT Festival
- Thank You, Thank You Love, Playwright, Director, Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing + HYPRTXT Festival
- Soma, Playwright + Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing
- The Economist , Playwright, MKA: Theatre of New Writing
- Dogmeat +, Playwright + Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing
