Tom Gleisner
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Tom Gleisner Victoria, Australia | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1980s–present |
Television | Have You Been Paying Attention? |
Spouse | Mary Muirhead |
Children | 2 |
Thomas Edmund Gleisner
Early life and education
Gleisner was educated at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia. He attended the University of Melbourne in the 1980s, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 1987. While he was a university student he began working with Santo Cilauro and Rob Sitch in the 1983 Law Revue Legal A.I.D.S. Gleisner wrote and performed in the 1985 Melbourne University Revue Too Cool for Sandals.
Television, radio, and film
Gleisner was credited as a writer on The D-Generation (1986–1987) but not as a regular performer.[1] He did, however, appear on numerous occasions as a guest star (he featured more prominently in the second season), and on the album The Satanic Sketches.
Gleisner went on to perform in the D-Gen's late-eighties Triple M radio show (and its spin-off album The Breakfast Tapes), and then starred in, and wrote for, ABC TV's
After The Late Show finished, Gleisner co-founded
which ran on the ABC from 1994 until 1997. Gleisner was a writer/producer/director, and also had a minor role as photocopier repairman Colin Konica.In 1995, Gleisner starred as mute cop Poncho on
Currently he is host of the popular Australian quiz show
Books
Gleisner has written four comedic books in the persona of a fictitious cricketer, Warwick Todd, The Warwick Todd Diaries (1997), Warwick Todd: Back in the Baggy Green (1998), Warwick Todd Goes The Tonk (2001) and Warwick Todd – Up in the Block Hole (2009). He has appeared in his Warwick Todd persona in guest appearances on TV.
Gleisner has also written a number of fly fishing books along with Rob Sitch.
With Sitch and Santo Cilauro, he is responsible for the travel guide parodies in the "Jetlag Travel Guide" series. The series comprises the Eastern Europe send-up of Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry, parody of Southeast Asian destinations Phaic Tăn: Sunstroke on a Shoestring, and Central American send-up San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups.
Theatre
With Cilauro and Sitch, Gleisner co-wrote the comic play The Speechmaker, which the Melbourne Theatre Company premiered in 2014.[2]
His musical Bloom, with music by Katie Weston, premiered in 2023, also for the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Personal life
Gleisner is married to Mary Muirhead and they have two children, a son and a daughter.[citation needed]
Gleisner is the chairman of Challenge, an Australian cancer support organisation.[3]
He is also passionate about raising autism awareness, co-founding Learning For Life, a centre that provides early intervention to autistic children, with his wife in 2004.[4] They were inspired to do so by the child of a dear friend of his and his wife.[5]
References
- ^ Nolan, Nic (23 April 2009). "Tom Gleisner – Thank God You're Here". The Independent Weekly. Archived from the original on 7 March 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ Woodhead, Cameron (6 June 2014). "The Speechmaker a slippery, clever, entertaining circus". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ^ Challenge – supporting kids with cancer Archived 30 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Meet Tom Gleisner's wife Mary Muirhead and their family". New Idea. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
- ^ "My Interview with Tom Gleisner". YouTube.
External links
- Tom Gleisner at IMDb