TOM HOLLOWAY is a multi-award-winning playwright and librettist. His work has been staged extensively in Australia and internationally. His plays include: BEYOND THE NECK (2007, winner AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play); RED SKY MORNING (2007, winner R. E. Ross Trust Development Award, Green Room Award Best New Writing for the Australian Stage); DON’T SAY THE WORDS (shortlisted for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Play Award and the Young Vic/Theatre 503 Season Award); LOVE ME TENDER (nominated for the Western Australia Premier’s Book Awards and the 2011 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play); AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART, (winner, 2010 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play and the 2010 Louis Esson Prize for Drama in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards). In 2013, Tom’s play AS WE FORGIVE was commissioned and produced by Performing Lines/Tasmania Performs premiered in Hobart for the Ten Days On The Island Festival. It then transferred to the Collected Works Festival in Canberra. Teaming up again with Matthew Lutton, Tom embarked on a staging of DANCE OF DEATH/PLAY STRINGBERG at Malthouse Theatre; while FORGET ME NOT (nominated for 2014 AWGIE Awards for Best Stage Play) premiered at Belvoir, a joint commission with Liverpool Everyman and Belvoir. Tom’s adaptation of Colin Thiele’s much loved classic STORM-BOY (winner of the 2014 AWGIE Award for Best Theatre For Young Audiences) premiered at Sydney Theatre Company and transferred to Barking Gecko Theatre Company, directed by John Sheedy. STORM BOY enjoyed a return season at STC in 2015, ahead of a national tour and is published by PlayLab. A new production of STORM BOY was produced in 2019 by Melbourne Theatre Company; Tom’s adaptation of James M Cain’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY commissioned and produced in 2016 by the Melbourne Theatre Company; and SUNSHINE for Red Stitch in Melbourne.
Tom was commissioned by the Seymour Centre to adapted Heather Rose’s novel MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE, produced by Seymour Centre and Sydney Festival in 2021, it won the 2024 AWGIE Award for Best Adapted Stage Play.
For the Bavaria State Opera, Tom was commissioned to write the libretto for SOUTH POLE composed by Miroslav Srnka which premiered in early 2016. Tom and Srnka are collaborating again on a new opera VOICE KILLER, commissioned and produced by MusikTheater an der Wien which will premiere in 2025.
Tom is currently under commission to write new plays for Sydney Theatre Company and Brink Productions. He is also developing an original screenplay with Archipelago Productions.
