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A West Australian of Irish and Scottish ancestry, from Mudurup in Whadjuk Nyungar Boodjar, and a settler in his permanent home in Tkarón:to, Toby Malone (he/him/his) has worked as an actor, dramaturg, award-winning educator, widely-published academic, and internationally-produced playwright, before moving into Library and Information Sciences.
He holds a PhD in Shakespearean textual analysis and dramaturgy from the University of Toronto, a Master of Library and Information Sciences from the University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English from the University of Western Australia.
Toby has worked as a theatre artist in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, with companies including Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad Times, Driftwood Theatre, Shaw Festival, Poorboy Theatre Scotland, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/BTA Films, and Kill Shakespeare Entertainment. He is also the host and producer of the acclaimed 'WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans Wake,' the most comprehensive podcast available on James Joyce's final novel.
Toby is an active member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, the Dramatists Guild of America, and the Ontario Library Association, and has taught theatre history and dramaturgy at the University of Waterloo and the State University of New York at Oswego.
He has published articles on Shakespeare on Film, Prompt-book ontology, Shakespeare in Performance, and Adaptation in journals that include Shakespeare Survey, Literature/Film Quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review, Shakespeare, Borrowers and Lenders, along with case studies on Prompt-book theory for Adam Matthew Digital and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His work appears in published collections with Routledge, Cambridge, and Oxford, and he has co-authored books on "Cutting Plays for Performance" (with Aili Huber, for Routledge); on "War Horse" (with Chris Jackman, for Palgrave Macmillan); and is completing the second edition of "Shakespeare in Performance: Romeo and Juliet" (with Jill Levenson, for Manchester UP). He has also edited and indexed several military history volumes, including the acclaimed "Two Ranks on the Road: 35 years of Australian Special Forces Service" by Michael J. Malone, OAM.
