Sunday, October 11, 2020
3:00 – 4:15pm PT
Not Really (Little Star)
Written and Performed by Toby Malone
Meg Logue – Director & Music
TJ Young – Dramaturg
Patrick Mathis – Sound
Toronto, Canada
A man speaks of his need to grieve an abstract but real life.
About the Artist
A West Australian who makes his permanent home in Toronto, Canada, and works as an academic, playwright, and dramaturg. Toby Malone holds a PhD in Shakespearean textual analysis and dramaturgy from the University of Toronto and a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Western Australia. He has worked as a theatre artist in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with companies including Stratford Festival of Canada, the Canadian Stage Company, Soulpepper Theatre, Driftwood Theatre Group, the Shaw Festival, Poorboy Theatre Scotland, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/BTA Films, and Kill Shakespeare Entertainment. Toby is an active member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, the Dramatists Guild of America, is the Region 2 Dramaturgy Coordinator for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and is a founding partner in both subTEXT Dramaturgy Solutions Group and the Entertainment Engineering Collective. He has published articles in Shakespeare Survey, Literature/Film Quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review, Borrowers and Lenders, appears in published collections with Routledge, Cambridge, and Oxford, and has published a monograph on ‘War Horse’ with Palgrave Macmillan. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy, Theatre History, and Criticism in the Theatre Department at the State University of New York at Oswego.
As recommended by the performer
Age recommendation: No
Trigger Warnings: Discussion of miscarriage
Run time: 16 minutes