Biography
Monte Dwyer was born in Newcastle, Australia,
on the 21st July 1958, and grew up in and around Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Valley.
A conventional education was attempted, but eventually aborted in 5th form (year 11) in favour of earning a quid and exploring the usual teenage rites.
As a precautionary measure he trained as a Psychiatric Nurse (Morisset, NSW) before setting off on a never-ending search for something.
Since that time he has occupied himself variously as a professional fisherman, fashion model, foreign aid worker, hospitality worker, failed property developer and sundry other diversions he won’t admit to here, and arrived at the conclusion that work is over-rated, it’s an artist’s life for him.
In the late-eighties he trained in Theatre Arts (Darwin, NT) under Gunduz Kalic (ex-E15 co-director, UK) and somehow ended up on television presenting the weather for the local ABC TV station, before being noticed by Channel 9 and given the same gig on their national breakfast show, Today, a role he performed from 1991 until he left in 2002 to continue his search for something.
Throughout his media career he has also been a produced playwright, an actor, a radio announcer,
a newspaper columnist, an author, a musician and a sometime journalist.
These days he juggles all these skills developing the Red in the Centre project, and has a sneaking suspicion he may have found what he was looking for.
MEDIA CREDITS
TELEVISION:
ABC TV Darwin, Evening News, Weather Presenter 1988-1990
TCN 9 Today Show, Weather Presenter 1991 – 2002
TEN 10 Let’s Do It, Host 2002
ATN 7 Sunrise, Presenter, Bush Postcards, 2008-09
Australia Network (ABC Asia), Monte’s Postcards, Presenter/Producer, 2010-11
RADIO:
ABC FM Darwin, Breakfast, Drive & Afternoons 1989-1990
Macquarie Southern Cross, Across Australia, Roving Reporter 2007
PRINT:
NT News, Columnist, 1989-1990
VIDEO/DVD:
Monte Dwyer’s Flying Cirrus, ABC Production, 1990
Red in the Centre, Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer, 2010
Red in the Centre, Looking for the H Chord, Monyer, 2011
Red in the Centre, The Nomads at Large, 2013
BOOKS:
Slapped by an Angel, co-authored with Kym Crosbie, Monyer, 2006
Red in the Centre, The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer, 2008
Red in the Centre, Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer, 2010
Red in the Centre, Looking for the H Chord, Monyer, 2011
Red in the Centre, The Nomads at Large, Monyer, 2013
The Means, Monyer, 2014
The Egg Collector, Monyer 2016
PLAYS:
I Would’ve Written, workshopped by ANPC (Australian National
Playwrights Conference) 1989, produced by Territory North 1989
Son, workshopped and performed by ANPC 1990,
produced by Territory North, 1989
Tadpoles, developed by ABC Radio, 1990, but evidently not performed (I’ve only recently learned).
MUSIC:
Self Titled EP, independent release, 2003
Red in the Centre, independent release, 2008
Skipbacking, independent release, 2012