Tom Holloway

Education

After attending University in Tasmania, Holloway studied playwriting at Sydney"s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2001, as well as at London"s Royal Court Theatre International Playwriting Studio in 2006.

Career

Holloway"s plays have been performed across Australia and internationally, including Beyond the Neck at Belvoir Street Theatre (2007), Red Sky Morning at Red Stitch Actors Theatre (2008-2009) and regional tour, and Don"t Say The Words (2009). And Number More Shall We Participant (2011) was performed by Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney and London"s Hampstead Theatre (2012). His stage adaptation of Colin Thiele"s Storm Boy premiered in Sydney in 2013.

Achievements

• Beyond the Neck received a 2008 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play. Red Sky Morning was awarded an R. E. Ross Trust Script Award and a Green Room Award for Best New Play. In 2010, And Number More Shall We Participant received the Victorian Premier"s Literary Louis Esson Prize for Drama. and the 2010 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play. 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 Washington Premier"s Literary Award and the 2008 and 2009 Patrick White.

Politics

In February 2011, his play Fatherland received its debut at the Gate Theatre in London.

Views

Quotations: "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 lieutenant".