Tobias Manderson-Galvin Explained

Tobias Manderson-Galvin
Birth Date:	19 August 1984
Birth Place:	Canberra, ACT, Australia
Nationality:	Australian
Alma Mater:	University of Melbourne & Swinburne University
Occupation:	Performer, director, poet, satirist, playwright, dramaturg
Parents:	Lenore Manderson, Pat Galvin (public servant)
Awards:	St Martins National Playwriting Award 2009; Green Room Award For Contribution to Independent Theatre Melbourne (Co-Recipient)
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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: .^[1] and UK/Aus company Doppelgangster.^{[2] [3]}

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

• Everybody Loses(2017-19), Writer/Deviser, Doppelgangster, Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Wales), La Générale (Paris), Vault Festival (London), Performance Lab (Sheffield), Tom Thumb (Margate), Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), The Projector (Singapore), Backbone Arts (Brisbane), MKA Theatre (Melbourne), Kings Cross Theatre (Sydney), Apparat Athen (Athens) ^[15]
• A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Disney (2016), Director/Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing, Provocare Festival ^[16]
• Doppelgangster's TITANIC (2015–16), co-writer + performer, Doppelgangster, (Cardiff, Experimentica;^[17] Paris, ArtCOP21; Aberystwyth, Site2Safle2 Festival; Melbourne, Hot!Hot!Hot! Festival^[18])
• Lucky (2015), Playwright, MKA: Theatre of New Writing in association with Melbourne Theatre Company's NEON Festival^[19]
• 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)^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}
• Thank You, Thank You Love (2014), Playwright, Director, Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing + HYPRTXT Festival^{[24] [25] [26] [27]}
• The Economist^[28] (2011), Playwright, MKA: Theatre of New Writing
• Dogmeat (2010)+(2014), Playwright + Performer, MKA: Theatre of New Writing ^{[29] [30] [31]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Theatre of New Writing . MKA . 2012-07-14.
2. Web site: Doppelgangster . Doppelgangster . 2023-11-13.
3. Web site: Doppelgangster's Cold War - Prague Fringe Festival . ArtsHub . 2019-11-17.
4. Web site: THEATRE REVIEW: The Economist . SMH/The Age . 2011-12-09.
5. Web site: 'Talent is Bravery in Disguise' . Daily Review. 2015-05-19.
6. Web site: 'Puntila/Matti review (Kings Cross Theatre, Sydney)' . Daily Review. 2017-09-29.
7. Web site: Titanic review: MKA and Doppelgangster's punk play on disaster film captures sinking feeling at the polls . SMH/The Age . 2016-07-04.
8. Web site: 2023 Program . Shepparton Festival . 2023-03-17.
9. Web site: 'Daily Review, Author - Tobias Manderson-Galvin' . Daily Review. 2019-09-26.
10. Web site: Violent Anti-Racing Speech Condemned but Artist says it was Satirical . SMH/The Age . 2023-10-11.
11. Web site: Tobias Manderson-Galvin's Anti-Racing Poem Condemned . Herald Sun . 2023-10-12.
12. Web site: Bad Press Should Not Make The Play . Realtime Magazine . 2012-01-02.
13. Web site: The Economist at C Nova and Nola at Underbelly . The Times UK . 2012-08-05.
14. Web site: Bad Press Should Not Make The Play . SMH/The Age . 2011-12-05.
15. Web site: Doppelgangster’s Everybody Loses: A Dramaturgy for Extinction. critical-stages.org. Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques - The IATC journal. Dec 15, 2022 .
16. Web site: A disconcertingly charming family of monsters. July 15, 2018. Witness Performance.
17. Web site: TITANIC @ Experimentica15. October 1, 2015. Chapter Arts.
18. Web site: Punk Play Captures Sinking Feeling. Woodhead. Cameron. July 4, 2016. The Age Newspaper.
19. Web site: MKA Double Feature Review. Fuhrmann. Andrew. May 18, 2015. Crikey's Daily Review.
20. Web site: Please Don't Talk About Me when I'm Gone | Vault Festival 2016 . May 1, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150626194534/http://www.vaultfestival.com/project/please-dont-talk-about-me-when-im-gone/ . June 26, 2015 .
21. Web site: Four Stars from LondonTheatre1. London Theatre #1. Alan Franks - London Theatre One.
22. Web site: Interview with Manderson-Galvin. The New Current. New Current.
23. Web site: Four and a half stars. Brilliantly Subversive!. The Londonist. Londonist Ltd.
24. Web site: Four Stars, Daily Review. Crikey's Daily Review. Crikey.
25. Web site: Loving Review from Catalyst. RMIT Catalyst - Reviews. RMIT Catalyst.
26. Web site: An Orgiastic Review. Stage Whispers.
27. Web site: damn, they do it well.. The Music. Street Press Australia.
28. Web site: the economist . MKA . 2011-07-22 . 2012-07-14.
29. Web site: Four Stars from Crikey. Crikey's Daily Review. Crikey.
30. Web site: 'A Desperate Poetry. From the Turnstiles. David Zampatti.
31. Web site: a savage beauty. West Australian Newspaper. Yahoo.