Dates
2004 – present
Education
Master of Writing for Performance [University of Melbourne];
Bachelor of Arts (M: Politics, Cultural Studies; m: Sociology) [Swinburne University];
Diploma of Arts (Small Companies & Community Theatre) [University of Ballarat] (incomplete)
Master
2012
Master of Writing for Performance
University of Melbourne, Faculty of Victorian College of the Arts.
Creative Work: ‘The Unknown Man on Somerton Beach’
Since Awarded: RE Ross Trust Playwrights Award (State Library of Victoria), Spotlight Reading (45downstairs), Dream Plays Commission (Traverse Theatre), Cybec Reading (Melbourne Theatre Company + SummerSalt Festival)
Supervisor: Dr Raimondo Cortese
Residencies
Visiting Artist
Sheffield Hallam University, Department of Humanities (Stage and Screen)
2019
Sheffield Hallam University, Department of Humanities (Stage and Screen)
2018
Visiting Artist
University of Witwatersrand, Wits School of Arts
2018
Select Conference Presentations and Talks
Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Tom Payne, “Everybody Loses: Elegy in the Anthropocene” Exeter University, Theatre and Performance Research Association, September 2019.
Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Tom Payne, “Everybody Loses” Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Conference, June 2019.
Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Tom Payne, “Everybody Loses: An Archaeology of Making” Chester University, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, November 2018.
Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Tom Payne, “A Piercing Twin Wound: Everybody Loses” Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, July 2018.
Tobias Manderson-Galvin, “Gatecrashers: performing resistance in climates of oppression [performance lecture]” Melbourne, Performance Studies International: PSi2016, July 2016.
Tobias Manderson-Galvin, “The Politics of Disruption: Activism and Artistic Practice at COP21 [Presentation]” Directors Lab, Melbourne Festival, October 2016.
Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Dr Tom Payne, “The Politics of Disruption at COP21 [Lecture]“Aberystwyth University, Politics, Protest and Performance, February 2016.
Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Dr Tom Payne, “Icy Determination: Doppelgangster’s TITANIC and the Signs and Stages of Migration” Aberystwyth University, Theatre for Change Symposium, February 2016.
Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Dr Tom Payne, “On and On and On Oxygen Support” (Presentation and Workshop), Place2B and ForeverSwarm’s Creative Factory, Paris, December 2015
Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Dr Tom Payne, “Oppressive Theatre” (Workshop), Place2B and ForeverSwarm’s Creative Factory, Paris, December 2015
Tobias Manderson-Galvin, “How To Write Plays [performance lecture]” Crack Theatre Festival, Newcastle, September 2012.