Dramaturg

Tom Holloway is a multi-award-winning Australian playwright. His work has been staged extensively in Australia and internationally and has been translated into a dozen or more languages. His plays include: And No More Shall We Part, (2016 Williamstown Theatre Festival USA, starring Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczamarek, 2012 Edinburgh Fringe by Traverse Theatre and multiple productions in Australia); Forget Me Not (The Bush Theatre, UK, 2015, starring Eleanor Bron and Belvoir St Theatre, 2011); Storm-Boy (first produced by Barking Ghecko Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company; Winner of the 2014 AWGIE Award for Theatre For Young People, then also co-produced by Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre, 2019); And more than a dozen other national and international productions and multiple awards including four AWGIES and a Victorian Premiers Award.

He was librettist for Miroslav Srnka’s opera South Pole (Bavarian State Opera, 2016/2017+ and starring Rolando Viliazon and Thomas Hampson, and shortlisted for Best New Opera at the 2016 International Opera Awards. Srnka and Holloway wrote two more operas produced by Bavaria, Make No Noise, 2012, (also produced at the Bregenz Festival, the world’s most famous opera festival) and Singularity in 2021.

In 2023 he was part of Artplay’s New Ideas Lab where he developed Then What?! an obstacle course game to teach story structure to 4-5-year-olds. Inspired by this, he’s also currently studying a Masters in Primary Teaching.

Tom is currently under commission with Theatre an der Wein (opera), Sydney Theatre Company, Archipelago Films and more.