TOM HOLLOWAY is 4-time AWGIE and multi award-winning Tasmanian-born playwright and librettist. His work has been staged extensively both in Australia and internationally. His plays include: MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE (2024 AWGIE winner for Best Adapted Stage Play); STORM BOY (2013 Premiere Barking Gecko/Sydney Theatre Company and 2015 return season and national tour, 2014 Winner AWGIE Award, Theatre for Young Audiences, 2014 Helpmann Award Nomination, Best Presentation for Children), AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART (produced in the UK by Hampstead Theatre for the Edinburgh Fringe and in American for Wiilliamstown Festival starring Alfred Molina, 2010 Winner AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play, 2010 Winner Victorian Premier’s Award) FORGET ME NOT (2014 AWGIE Award Nomination, Best Stage Play); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Melbourne Theatre Company); SUNSHINE (Red Stitch Theatre); AS WE FORGIVE (Performing Lines/Griffin Theatre Company); BEYOND THE NECK (2008 Winner AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play); DON’T SAY THE WORD (shortlisted for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Play Award, the 2009 Young Vic/Theatre 503 Season Award); RED SKY MORNING (2007 winner of the R. E. Ross Trust Development Award, 2008 Green Room Award for Best New Writing for the Australian Stage); LOVE ME TENDER (2010 Premiere Perth International Festival/Belvoir/Thin Ice and nominated for 2011 AWGIE Award); Fatherland (2011 Premiere at The Gate Theatre London and touring to Volkstheater, Munich) and FACES LOOK UGLY (2011 Premiere at the Århus Teater Denmark, Winner of the 2010 Max Afford Fellowship).
He has collaborated on four operas with Czech composer, Miroslav Srnka, produced by Bavarian State Opera, the Bregens Festival, and including a new opera, VOICE KILLER, premiering at Theatre an der Wein (Vienna) in 2025.
As well as Australia, United Kingdom, Germany and the USA, his plays have also been seen France, Jordan, Cypress, New Zealand, South Africa and more.
Tom is currently under commission with Theatre an der Wein, Sydney Theatre Company, and Flying Penguin in collaboration with Brink Productions. As well as his playwriting work he has developed a series of workshops to share storytelling and creative process with young people.
