Tom Slater

ARTIST STATEMENT

I'm a playwright, screenwriter, director and producer who can't seem to settle on a medium. I guess they all have to do with performance and shaping things for an audience. Seen from above, my work seems to obsess on maleness and masculinity, but really I'm just interested in the way that my own gender can be misled or misunderstood, and how our attempts to tackle those things impact friendships, relationships and family. I love to find the absurd in situations of high drama and the dramatic in moments of silliness.

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Sexy Nails, web series, 2020, premiered on YouTube and presently streaming on The Roku Channel

BIO

Tom is the writer/director behind Sexy Nails, a web series celebrating non-toxic masculinity where two best mates get their nails done together and talk about their relationships. After screening at festivals around the world including Series Fest, Cinequest and Stareable (where it won Best In Writing), Sexy Nails was acquired by Roku Originals where it currently streams in the US. Before making web series you’ve never heard of, Tom was an award-winning playwright, winning Qld Theatre Company’s Young Playwrights Award, and producer of short films, music videos and TVCs that have screened at SXSW, Tribeca, Sydney Film Festival and MIFF, won an Aria Award and been nominated for an AACTA. Tom has also been nominated for a Logie and can tell you hand on heart that nothing stings more than not winning a Logie. Tom is currently in development on a factual series based on Sexy Nails with a US streamer, writing a new series based on the death of his Dad, and playing (losing) a lot of online chess.