Tom Holloway is an Australian playwright, based in

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. Holloway's plays have been performed across Australia and internationally, including ''

Beyond the Neck ''Beyond the Neck'' is a play written by the Australian playwright Tom Holloway and published by Brisbane's Playlab Press in 2008, as the first full-length play that Holloway created. The play is divided into two halves, "The First Movement" a ...

'' at

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(2007), ''Red Sky Morning'' at

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(2008-9) and regional tour, and ''Don't Say The Words'' (2009). '' And No More Shall We Part'' (2011) was performed by Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney and London's

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(2012). His stage adaptation of Colin Thiele's '' Storm Boy'' premiered in Sydney in 2013. In February 2011, his play ''Fatherland'' received its debut at the

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in London.

Education

After attending University in

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, Holloway studied playwriting at Sydney's

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in 2001, as well as at London's

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International Playwriting Studio in 2006.

Plays

Style

Holloway has likened aspects of his work to

postdramatic theatre The notion of postdramatic theatre was established by German theatre researcher Hans-Thies Lehmann in his book ''Postdramatic Theatre'', summarising a number of tendencies and stylistic traits occurring in avant-garde theatre since the end of the ...

. On ''Love Me Tender'', he said: "There's been a big push away from story the last ten years in this movement called ‘post-dramatic theatre'. They're very fragmented and experimental, these plays... I'm taking what I love about those plays and feeding narrative back into it.".

Awards

'' received a 2008

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for Best Stage Play. ''Red Sky Morning'' was awarded an R. E. Ross Trust Script Award and a

Green Room Award The Green Room Awards are peer awards which recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, drama, fringe theatre, musical theatre and opera in Melbourne. The awards were started in 1982 when Blair Edgar and Steven Tandy formed the Green Room Awards A ...

for Best New Play. In 2010, ''And No More Shall We Part'' received the

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary p ...

Louis Esson Prize for Drama. and the 2010 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play.Comedy Writing Shines At The 2010 AWGIES
at Australian Writers’ Guild. Accessed 30 May 2015 In 2011 his play ''Faces Look Ugly'' won the Max Afford Award. He was shortlisted for the 2011 AWGIE, the 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Award, the 2011 WA Premier's Literary Award and the 2008 and 2009 Patrick White Awards.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Holloway, Tom Australian male dramatists and playwrights Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Australian male writers National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni