Tom Holloway

Tom Holloway is an award-winning Australian playwright, based in Melbourne as of May 2015^[update].

Holloway's plays have been performed across Australia and internationally, including Beyond the Neck at Belvoir St Theatre (2007), Red Sky Morning at Red Stitch Actors Theatre (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 Hampstead Theatre (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 Gate Theatre in London.

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.

Holloway has likened aspects of his work to postdramatic theatre. 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.".

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 No More Shall We Part received the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Louis Esson Prize for Drama. and the 2010 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play.

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