Education

After attending University in Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

, Holloway studied playwriting at Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art

National Institute of Dramatic Art

The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national training institute for students of theatre, film, and television, based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. It is supported by the federal Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. NIDA is located adjacent...

 in 2001, as well as at London's Royal Court Theatre

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...

 International Playwriting Studio in 2006.

Plays

Holloway's plays have been performed across Australia and internationally, including "Beyond the Neck" at Belvoir St Theatre

Belvoir St Theatre

Belvoir St Theatre is an Australian theatre venue in Sydney. The venue in Belvoir Street, Surry Hills previously operated as the Nimrod Theatre, and was founded as "Belvoir St" in 1984 by Sue Hill and Chris Westwood...

 (2007), "Red Sky Morning" at Red Stitch Theatre (2008-9) and regional tour, and "Don't Say The Words" (2009) and "And No More Shall We Part" (2011) at Griffin Theatre Company

Griffin Theatre Company

Griffin Theatre Company is an Australian theatre specialising in new writing. It is the resident theatre company at the SBW Stables Theatre in Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia...

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In February 2011, his play "Fatherland" received its debut at the Gate Theatre in London.

Style

Holloway has likened aspects of his work to postdramatic theatre

Postdramatic theatre

The notion of "post-dramatic theatre" was established by German theatre researcher Hans-Thies Lehmann in his 1999 book with the same title, summarizing a number of tendencies and stylistic traits occurring in avant-garde theatre since the end of the 1960s...

. On "Love Me Tender", he said: "There's been a big push away from story the last ten years in this movement called ‘post-dramatic theatre'. They're very fragmented and experimental, these plays... I'm taking what I love about those plays and feeding narrative back into it.".

Awards

"Beyond the Neck" received a 2007 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play.

"Red Sky Morning" was awarded an R.E. Ross Trust Script Award and a Green Room Award for Best New Play.

In 2010, "And No More Shall We Part" received the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Louis Esson Prize for Drama.