Holding the Man (NHB Modern Plays)

Strangers in Between (2005) and Holding the Man (2006) were premiered by Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney, where Tommy was writer in residence. Both plays won the NSW Premier's Award in successive years. Holding the Man was revived for the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, before transferring to Sydney Opera House, Company B Belvoir, Melbourne Theatre Company and Brisbane Powerhouse. Holding the Man also won the 2007 Australian Writers' Guild Award (AWGIE) and the Philip Parsons Award. It received its West End premiere in May 2010. Other plays include Saturn's Return (Sydney Theatre Company at Wharf 2 in 2008, transferring to the main stage in 2009), Gwen in Purgatory (Company B Belvoir and La Boite Theatre Company in 2010, directed by Neil Armfield), an adaptation of Federico García Lorca's 1932 play Blood Wedding (Royal and Derngate, Northampton) and an adaptation of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (Company B, New Victory Theatre, New York, 2013). Screen credits include Offspring, Spirited, and Matchbox's 2014 Foxtel mini-series Devil's Playground. Tommy is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Director's Course). His other works include young people's theatre pieces Troy's House (1997), an adaptation of Marlowe's Massacre at Paris (2001), and Precipice (2007).