Passionate about interrogating and developing new Australian work, TIM MCGARRY trained in theatre at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. His writing credits include – for Brisbane Festival/QPAC Trent Dalton’s Love Stories, for CDP Theatre Producers Being Beethoven, Queensland Theatre/QPAC Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe, Christine Dunstan Productions Colleen McCullough’s Tim, Australian Chamber Orchestra There’s A Sea In My Bedroom, Sydney Opera House Families Unit Music for the Dreaming, The Nutcracker, Swing Baby Swing, Monkey Baa Thursday’s Child, Hitler’s Daughter, I Am Jack, Goodbye Jamie Boyd, The Peasant Prince, True Story of Mao’s Last Dancer, Pete the Sheep, Sydney Symphony Who Needs A Conductor Anyway. Between 2005-2017 Tim was a Creative Director of Monkey Baa Theatre Company, one of Australia’s largest touring companies for young audiences, where he co-wrote over 20 new Australian works, touring nationally and internationally, receiving multiple Helpmann, Glug, and Sydney Theatre awards.Tim also works as a theatre director, actor and dramaturg.
