Toby Malone

A West Australian from Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar who makes his permanent home in Tkaronto, Toby Malone (he/him/his) has worked as an actor, dramaturg, academic, and 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 BA (Hons) in English from the University of Western Australia. Toby 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, Buddies in Bad Times, Driftwood Theatre Group, the Shaw Festival, Poorboy Theatre Scotland, Pittsburgh Public Theatre...

A West Australian from Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar who makes his permanent home in Tkaronto, Toby Malone (he/him/his) has worked as an actor, dramaturg, academic, and 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 BA (Hons) in English from the University of Western Australia. Toby 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, Buddies in Bad Times, 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, and has taught at the University of Waterloo and SUNY Oswego. 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 co-authored books on "Cutting Plays for Performance" with Routledge and on "War Horse" with Palgrave Macmillan. He is currently a liaison librarian at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto and Contract Open Access Coordinator at Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries.

Scripts

Group/Text

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

It's the worst thing any student will ever suffer: a group project. Can Jace pull their group through the apathy, drama, and doublespeak of a high school project, or will the text chain undo them all?

Intended for high school performers.

It's the worst thing any student will ever suffer: a group project. Can Jace pull their group through the apathy, drama, and doublespeak of a high school project, or will the text chain undo them all?

Intended for high school performers.

997 Pieces

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

Welcome to the high-stakes arena of senior citizens' competitive jigsaw puzzle building.

Welcome to the high-stakes arena of senior citizens' competitive jigsaw puzzle building.

Outgrowth

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

Rugged Australian adventurer Alby Baker was named for a tropical cyclone that battered the coast as he was born. He has family, love, and inner peace: so why is he compulsively drawn to pluck and eat his own beard hairs? Having made a choice to live in Toronto - the planet’s direct opposite geographic point from his sleepy Australian beachside hometown - Alby is forced to confront, alongside his wife and best...

Rugged Australian adventurer Alby Baker was named for a tropical cyclone that battered the coast as he was born. He has family, love, and inner peace: so why is he compulsively drawn to pluck and eat his own beard hairs? Having made a choice to live in Toronto - the planet’s direct opposite geographic point from his sleepy Australian beachside hometown - Alby is forced to confront, alongside his wife and best friend, that some storms can only be kept inside for so long.

Clasp

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

(10 Minutes) During a global pandemic, we all miss that human contact. Strangers Rob and Joe meet in a seedy parking lot to find it.

(10 Minutes) During a global pandemic, we all miss that human contact. Strangers Rob and Joe meet in a seedy parking lot to find it.

Not Really (Little Star)

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

(10 Minutes) A man speaks of his need to grieve an abstract but real life.

(10 Minutes) A man speaks of his need to grieve an abstract but real life.

Endowed: Or, The Play With The Butt-Plug

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

Happily remarried, Erica gets a shock when she discovers the terms of her recently deceased ex-husband’s will and its stipulation that she find a place for a very distinctive intimate item. A butt-plug. It’s a butt-plug, okay? How does Erica’s new husband react, and can it be as explosive as the opinion of her ex’s grieving new girlfriend?

Happily remarried, Erica gets a shock when she discovers the terms of her recently deceased ex-husband’s will and its stipulation that she find a place for a very distinctive intimate item. A butt-plug. It’s a butt-plug, okay? How does Erica’s new husband react, and can it be as explosive as the opinion of her ex’s grieving new girlfriend?

Ador'd Once, Too

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: one of Shakespeare’s greatest fools: or is he? Ador’d Once, Too follows Andrew long before titles, fortune, and his arrival in lllyria. Through espionage, secrecy, and tragedy, witness the unexpected love that made him who he truly is.

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: one of Shakespeare’s greatest fools: or is he? Ador’d Once, Too follows Andrew long before titles, fortune, and his arrival in lllyria. Through espionage, secrecy, and tragedy, witness the unexpected love that made him who he truly is.

Kangaroo Boy

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

(30 Minute) There's a new kid at school, and he talks weird. Jordan has been through some experiences in the recent past that might be useful to 'Kangaroo Boy'.

(30 Minute) There's a new kid at school, and he talks weird. Jordan has been through some experiences in the recent past that might be useful to 'Kangaroo Boy'.

The Unlawful Abusive Patriarchal Possessive Entitlement of the Motown Sound By Way of the Surrogate Collusion of the Jackson Five (Or, I Want You Back)

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

Writing partners Sam and Nick have been offered a rare opportunity to pen a viral pop culture article on a short deadline, so they set their sights on the lyrics to a problematic Jackson Five song, only to discover that life has started to imitate art.

Writing partners Sam and Nick have been offered a rare opportunity to pen a viral pop culture article on a short deadline, so they set their sights on the lyrics to a problematic Jackson Five song, only to discover that life has started to imitate art.

Lower Sherbourne

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

A gritty new adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s 'The Lower Depths', this is a portrait of life among the down and out in a squatter’s house in Toronto’s edgy Sherbourne and Dundas neighborhood, featuring a multicultural cross-section of personalities who struggle to survive amidst drug addiction, violence, and danger. Into this COVID-19-ravaged environment comes Luka, a self-styled “pilgrim,” who offers the denizens of...

A gritty new adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s 'The Lower Depths', this is a portrait of life among the down and out in a squatter’s house in Toronto’s edgy Sherbourne and Dundas neighborhood, featuring a multicultural cross-section of personalities who struggle to survive amidst drug addiction, violence, and danger. Into this COVID-19-ravaged environment comes Luka, a self-styled “pilgrim,” who offers the denizens of Lower Sherbourne something they need most: hope.

Hamlet (Variorum)

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

A brand-new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet built on the expedient line-structure of the so-called “Bad Quarto” of 1603 along with the familiar phrasing of the 1623 Folio text, Hamlet (Variorum) represents a fresh, rapid-fire adaptation critics have described as “personal, powerful,” “thrilling” and “downright dangerous.”

A brand-new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet built on the expedient line-structure of the so-called “Bad Quarto” of 1603 along with the familiar phrasing of the 1623 Folio text, Hamlet (Variorum) represents a fresh, rapid-fire adaptation critics have described as “personal, powerful,” “thrilling” and “downright dangerous.”

Chapter Envy

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

(10 Minutes) A married couple negotiates the delicate art of reading the same book at the same time.

Intended for high school performers.

(10 Minutes) A married couple negotiates the delicate art of reading the same book at the same time.

Intended for high school performers.

Cinnamon

by Toby Malone

Synopsis

It's the end of the day at the Cinnamon Cafe, and Janet has just found something offensive sprinkled on her coffee. Too bad Andy is just a little distracted...

Intended for high school performers.

It's the end of the day at the Cinnamon Cafe, and Janet has just found something offensive sprinkled on her coffee. Too bad Andy is just a little distracted...

Intended for high school performers.