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Thomas Smolej grew up in Carinthia, completing high school in 2001 at BORG Klagenfurt with a concentration on music, and completed an acting degree at the Viennese Examination Board (Paritätische Prüfungskommission Wien). He studied voice with Ronald Pries at the Klagenfurt Conservatory.
Since 2002 Smolej has lived in Vienna. After moving there he took acting lessons with Erhard Pauer and Isabel Weicken, as well as voice with Christian Koch und Jack Poppell and speech training with Biggi Weidinger.
Since then he has worked as a freelance actor in stage productions, doing voiceovers for radio and TV, and as an acting coach and lecturer for speech technique ("Introduction to Theoretical and Practical Speech Technique", "Einführung in die theoretische und praktische Sprechtechnik") at the Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft department of the University of Vienna.
Since 2005 Smolej has been a member of the permanent ensemble of Cabarat Simpl , has worked as a director, [1] and has been on the Jury of the Examination Board for Equal Representation in the Stage Profession (Paritätischen Prüfungskommission für den Bühnenberuf) since 2012.
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