Tobias Manderson-Galvin

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Tobias Manderson-Galvin
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Manderson-Galvin at a British Council promotion, 2014
Born (1984-08-19) 19 August 1984 (age 40)
Canberra, ACT, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater University of Melbourne & Swinburne University
Occupation(s)Performer, director, poet, satirist, playwright, dramaturg
Parent(s) Lenore Manderson, Pat Galvin (public servant)
AwardsSt Martins National Playwriting Award 2009; Green Room Award For Contribution to Independent Theatre Melbourne (Co-Recipient)
Website www.mka.org.au
www.doppelgangster.com

Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin (born 19 August 1984) is an Australian actor, satirist, performance poet, and playwright. He is co founder and CEO/Artistic Director of Melbourne's new writing theatre: MKA: Theatre of New Writing. [1] and UK/Aus company Doppelgangster. [2] [3]

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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. [4] 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, and his Jewish and Irish heritage. He's performed on stages diverse as the Melbourne Theatre Company, [5] Kings Cross Theatre, [6] a carpark, [7] and an old tip. [8]

His writing has appeared in academic publications, poetry anthologies, and briefly for Daily Review. [9]

Public Controversies

On Melbourne Cup Day, 2023, when at a Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses 'Nup to the Cup' event Manderson-Galvin performed a poem that called for racegoers to be murdered. According to The Age Newspaper this attracted a police investigation. Manderson-Galvin stated the poem was satirical and was disbelieving that any one could have thought otherwise. [10] [11]

In December 2011 Manderson-Galvin's stage-thriller 'The Economist' [12] [13] - a play responding to the 2011 Norway attacks - generated controversy in Australia when Manderson-Galvin repeated to media that the killer had cited former Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Peter Costello in his manifesto. Writing for the Age critic John Bailey challenged the reactionary reporting noting that comments like sent shockwaves across the globe andcritics have savaged had been reported before the production had even opened. [14]

Selected stage works

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References

  1. ↑ "Theatre of New Writing". MKA. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "Doppelgangster". Doppelgangster. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Doppelgangster's Cold War - Prague Fringe Festival". ArtsHub. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  4. ↑ "THEATRE REVIEW: The Economist". SMH/The Age. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  5. ↑ "'Talent is Bravery in Disguise'". Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more. Daily Review. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "'Puntila/Matti review (Kings Cross Theatre, Sydney)'". Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more. Daily Review. 29 September 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Titanic review: MKA and Doppelgangster's punk play on disaster film captures sinking feeling at the polls". SMH/The Age. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "2023 Program" (PDF). Shepparton Festival. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  9. ↑ "'Daily Review, Author - Tobias Manderson-Galvin'". Daily Review. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  10. ↑ "Violent Anti-Racing Speech Condemned but Artist says it was Satirical". SMH/The Age. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "Tobias Manderson-Galvin's Anti-Racing Poem Condemned". Herald Sun. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  12. ↑ "Bad Press Should Not Make The Play". Realtime Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  13. ↑ "The Economist at C Nova and Nola at Underbelly". The Times UK. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  14. ↑ "Bad Press Should Not Make The Play". SMH/The Age. 4 December 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  15. ↑ "Doppelgangster's Everybody Loses: A Dramaturgy for Extinction". critical-stages.org. Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques - The IATC journal. 11 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  16. ↑ "A disconcertingly charming family of monsters". Witness Performance. 15 July 2018.
  17. ↑ "TITANIC @ Experimentica15". Chapter Arts. 1 October 2015.
  18. ↑ Woodhead, Cameron (4 July 2016). "Punk Play Captures Sinking Feeling". The Age Newspaper.
  19. ↑ Fuhrmann, Andrew (18 May 2015). "MKA Double Feature Review". Crikey's Daily Review.
  20. ↑ "Please Don't Talk About Me when I'm Gone | Vault Festival 2016". Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  21. ↑ "Four Stars from LondonTheatre1". London Theatre #1. Alan Franks - London Theatre One. 12 February 2015.
  22. ↑ "Interview with Manderson-Galvin". The New Current. New Current.
  23. ↑ "Four and a half stars. Brilliantly Subversive!". The Londonist. Londonist Ltd. 12 February 2015.
  24. ↑ "Four Stars, Daily Review". Crikey's Daily Review. Crikey.
  25. ↑ "Loving Review from Catalyst". RMIT Catalyst - Reviews. RMIT Catalyst.
  26. ↑ "An Orgiastic Review". Stage Whispers.
  27. ↑ "damn, they do it well". The Music. Street Press Australia.
  28. ↑ "the economist". MKA. 22 July 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  29. ↑ "Four Stars from Crikey". Crikey's Daily Review. Crikey.
  30. ↑ "'A Desperate Poetry". From the Turnstiles. David Zampatti. 7 February 2014.
  31. ↑ "a savage beauty". West Australian Newspaper. Yahoo. 7 February 2014.
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