Toby Malone
Research Impact Librarian (Other humanities; Other social sciences; Languages and literature; History, archaeology and related studies; Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design)
Toronto
A West Australian who makes his permanent home in Toronto, 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 degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Western Australia. 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 Research Impact Librarian at Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries.
Publications
- Quoting Shakespeare in Twentieth-Century Film
- Staging Shakespeare in Social Games: Towards a Theory of Theatrical Game Design
- Adapting War Horse: Cognition, the Spectator, and a Sense of Play
- 'Hast Thou Been Tampering?': Dramaturgical Adaptation and 'Richard III'
- 'Distract Parcels in Combined Sums': The Stratford Festival Archives' Stage-Managerial Collections
- 'A Dog, a Rat, … a Cat to Scratch a Man to Death': Olivier's Richard III and Popular Cultures
- Behind the Red Curtain of Verona Beach: Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
- Tagging Time and Space: TEI and the Canadian Stratford Festival Promptbooks
- A digital parallel-text approach to performance historiography
- Digital Shakespeare
- Farah Karim-Cooper and Tiffany Stern, eds. Shakespeare’s Theatre and the Effects of Performance. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2012. xix + 296 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-1-40814-692-7.
- Parallel-Text Analysis and Practical Dramaturgies
- Using Theatrical Prompt-Books for Cultural Insight
- Cutting Plays for Performance: A Practical and Accessible Guide
- Parallel-text analysis and practical dramaturgies
- "The True Tragedy of Richard the Third," by Anonymous
- Cutting and Adapting Text for the Virtual Performing Landscape
- What is a Prompt Book?
- Behind the Red Curtain of Verona Beach: Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
- Adapting War Horse : Cognition, the Spectator, and a Sense of Play
- “Distract parcels in combined sums”: The Stratford Festival Archives' Stage-Managerial Collections
- 'Hast Thou Been Tampering?' Adaptive Dramaturgy and Richard III
- Polychronic Actants: Modern Promptbooks as Anticipated Acts, Unanticipated Acts, and Ideal Assemblages