Tim McGarry

Actor, Before the Meeting

Tim McGarry trained in theatre at WAAPA and works as an actor, writer, director and dramaturg.

Theatre credits include:

• Tell Me Before The Sun Explodes for KXT/ Rock Bottom Productions
• The Campaign for White Box Theatre
• The Shadow Box for Old Fitz Theatre
• Cyrano De Bergerac for Sport for Jove
• The God of Isaac, You Will Not Play Wagner, My Name is Asher Lev, and Coming to See Aunt Sophie for Eternity Playhouse
• The national tour of TML Management’s It’s a Dad Thing
• I Am Jack, Worry Warts, and Hitler’s Daughter for Monkey Baa
• The Carthaginians for O’Punksy’s
• A Respectable Wedding for Crossroads
• The Male Line, Time Gentlemen, Time is Not Yet Ripe, Macbeth, and Italian Stories for Theatre South
• The Suicide for Kings Cross Theatre
• The Information for Company B Sharp
• Bouncers for RTC
• The national tour of Gordon Frost’s Big River The Musical
• The Sentimental Bloke for WATC
• Snoopy The Musical for Hole in the Wall

For film and television, Tim has appeared in:

• ABC’s Rake
• All Saints
• Home and Away
• Underbelly: The Golden Mile
• A More Fortunate Life
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Lilian’s Story
• Manny
• Goddess of 1967
• And he will soon appear in the upcoming Netflix comedy series Wellmania

Most recently, Tim was a commissioned writer for Queensland Theatre Company, adapting Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe. Other writing credits include:

• Colleen McCullough’s Tim for Art House/ Capitol Tamworth
• There’s A Sea In My Bedroom for ACO
• Music for the Dreaming, The Nutcracker, and Swing Baby Swing for Sydney Opera House
• Thursday’s Child, Hitler’s Daughter, I Am Jack, Goodbye Jamie Boyd and The Peasant Prince: The True Story of Mao’s Last Dancer for Monkey Baa

Tim was Co-Creative Director of Monkey Baa Theatre Company from 2005 to 2017. He is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.